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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...
...Trump story has been a media circus: Barbara Walters raising her glass to toast Ivana. Only in this atmosphere does it seem unsurprising that a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (John O'Connor of New York) would publicly discuss the pastoral visit of one of the separating partners in a marriage. CARDINAL TO TRUMPS: PRAY, chimed Newsday on Page One. People who choose to share their private lives with gossip columnists and debate the terms of their divorce in newspapers get what they deserve...
Perhaps inevitably, the cloud of the new celebrity journalism hangs now over even the most rarefied atmosphere in our profession, the New York Times. Forget how confused the Times was about what to do with the Trump story. In that same week the Times also found the need to review Nelson Mandela's performance. SOME FIND MANDELA'S VISION LIMITED, said the headline, four days after the man had emerged 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...
There she was, blond and bedizened and bravely unbowed, pictured on the front page of the newspaper to which she had confided her most private conversations. No, not Ivana Trump. The woman standing next to her, the one commanding equal attention in that come-to-tell-all photo: syndicated gossip columnist Liz Smith of the New York Daily News, the shoulder La Trump chose to cry on when she wanted to tell the whole world what she thought of the man who had left her. They stood side by side, equals and friends and newsmakers, the aspirant to a jumbo...
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...