Wednesday, February 5, 2014

If It Bleeds, It Leads...

Inside Philip Seymour Hoffman's Quiet Descent Into Addiction

Here's the new cover, and yes, Hoffman is getting the full Dead Celebrity treatment. I don't mean to be disrespectful, he was a great actor and his death is a tragedy, but there are many ways People could have framed the story. They didn't have to go with "A Life Destroyed By Heroin," with a bright red background for emphasis. I'm also pretty sure this "great actor" was never featured in a cover story while he was alive. He's big news now only because he died, which is both sad and predictable.

The three sidebar stories were also easy to guess, but I'm slightly surprised that there's no sign of Justin Bieber.

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