A panel of journalists discuss the increasing amount of news coverage that celebrities receive. The journalists examine the number of times that legitimate news sources spend covering celebrities and determine if the attention is driven by consumer interest or if the public is interested as a result of all the media attention.
Curt Holman writes about movies, plays and pop culture for the Atlanta alt weekly newspaper Creative Loafing, where he contributes to the Arts and Entertainment blog Culture Surfing. He is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association, was a 1988 student judge for the Peabody Broadcasting Awards, a two time winner of the Green Eyeshades Award for critical writing, and a 2005 National Endowment of the Arts Fellow.
Art Harrish has 13 years with CNN as a two-time Emmy Award-winning investigative correspondent and an embedded reporter in Iraq, to covering Hollywood scoops, scandals and politics for *Entertainment Tonight*. As a journalist-producer, he also creates a variety of news, entertainment and web projects as chief executive officer of Atlanta-based *Busystreet Productions*. A veteran journalist, he created The Bald Truth (www.artharris.com), a popular news blog with attitude that counts well over a million page views its first year, and draws on Art's three decades covering celebrity, politics, war, true crime, pop culture and Hollywood.