Big Deal
So, the above memo was issued by the fucking Associated Press, the leading wire service in the world and the first to call the primary election in New Hampshire last night for Hillary Clinton. Notwithstanding my own affiliation with this here gossip blog, the above memo makes me violently ill. The goddamn AP is issuing memos proclaiming that Britney-related news is a "big deal." There's an election going on to decide the next leader of the United States of America; there's a goddamn war going on; the country is about 12 days from a recession; there's some messed up shit going on in Iran and Kenya; and the writers are on strike. And the AP wants to worry its pretty little head over fucking Britney Spears. Jesus Christ on a limp dick. Get real. You know what that means, don't you? It means that Websters is my Bitch can officially be considered a news outlet. Fuck me. Well, here's some unsavory posts of Britney. Warning: Clicking on them now may be considered informative.
Big Deal: Anything of great importance or consequence, i.e. Britney Spears.
Wait, wait, wait. OK, I'm in the news business, and when the Southern California bureau chief of the AP says everything involving Britney is a big deal, what that means is that everything involving Britney is a big deal for the Southern California bureau, which understandably produces a huge amount of content for AP's entertainment wire, where Britney is most certainly a top story. This doesn't mean that the other things going on in the world that are validly important aren't important. It just means the SoCal bureau is going to provide the Britney news the rest of the country (sadly) craves. It's their job. But that news absolutely does not come over on the regular (national) wire. It's restricted solely to the entertainment wire, and will be until Britney goes down in flames, at which point, yes, it will jump to the news wire and to legitimate news spots in many publications, and I will again re-evaluate my career path.