It was only a matter of time, said Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times. In recent years, American newspapers have been utterly seduced by the popularity of celebrity journalism, giving their gossip columnists prime space and tacit leeway to break all the usual rules of journalism. That policy has finally produced a bona fide scandal, with accusations that Jared Paul Stern, a gossip columnist for the New York Post
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