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That is not to say that the breakup of the Trump marriage isn't a story. It is, and it is appropriate to have a little fun with it. After all, the Trump saga -- the ascendancy of Donald Trump as a business power, of Mr. and Mrs. Trump as social doyens -- has been a masterwork of media manipulation and self-promotion, abetted by a celebrity-worshiping press corps. But to watch a purportedly serious newspaper like Newsday report breathlessly in its lead story that "hotel records show that Maples paid no bills" is to discover where priorities in the news...
...Donald Forst, Newsday's New York editor, explained that the war of the Trumps has riveted the media's attention "because it revolves around lust, power, money, sex. A man who was successful, who's written books or had books written for him, and now he's got a little mud on his shoes. People just...
...from 27 years in the African Gulag. Mandela had himself become a celebrity to be regarded through the cynical eye of this New Journalism, the subject of its infectious, abbreviated tone, the obsession with appearance as opposed to substance. These are the warning signs of meltdown. Ciao, Nelson. Hello, Donald. Hello, Ivana...
Right across town, hours later, the New York Post's Cindy Adams, a darker and doughtier and even more decked-out doyen of dirt, was marinating in Donald Trump's self-righteous anger at being blamed for that saddest of commonplaces, a divorce. He was just as eager as his wife to hash out in public a story that seemed certain to do him no good, proving again the quirky fact that keeps all gossip columns in business: for some people, there is just no such thing as bad publicity. In Adams' published stories she too stood front and center...
Which brings us to Donald and Ivana Trump. I recuse myself, on the grounds stated above. While I am at it, I should mention Geraldo Rivera. Also professional golf. The baby-boom generation, at least when it puts on its self-regarding tribal panoply. The collected works of Sylvester Stallone. Deconstruction. The Super Bowl. The northward migration of the killer bees. Magazine articles that describe "Blank's Lonely Fight Against Blank." Anything that Jean-Paul Sartre ever wrote, said or thought. The intellectual life of Roseanne Barr. The works of Erica Jong, who once composed a poem with this line...