Sunday, April 4, 2010

Celebrity News: "Straight" or "Filtered"

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Link to April 4 New York Times article, "Ricky Martin's Personal Spin on His Own 'News'".

Excerpt:   Last week the Latin pop star Ricky Martin — to the surprise of perhaps almost no one — came out of the closet. Did he give the exclusive to People? Nope. Whisper it to Page Six? Nuh-uh. Submit to a tearful interview with Barbara Walters? Not a chance.

Instead Mr. Martin posted a statement on his fan Web site, rickymartinmusic.com. “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man,” he wrote.

It was a departure from the typical celebrity coming-out, which goes something like this: find a sympathetic publication, say, The Advocate (Sean Hayes), Time (Ellen DeGeneres) or People (Lance Bass, Clay Aiken and Neil Patrick Harris); give a soul-baring interview; and watch the story land at the same time you are promoting a new show, album or book.

Mr. Martin is one of a growing number of celebrities who, fed up with being hounded by tabloids and Internet gossip, want to control their public personas by addressing personal issues directly with their fans
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But that didn't stop the above-mentioned publications from doing some reporting of their own, of course.







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