So Jessica Simpson and husband Nick Lachey have officially announced that they're splitting up.
I'm sure that the tabloids, which have been insisting that this was happening almost from the start, must be relieved.
After all, when week after week they would produce new stories about them splitting and the couple steadfastly refused to accede to the headlines, it must have gotten extremely frustrating.
I'm assuming the tabloids must have been following the journalistic credo "If you say it often enough, eventually it will be true."
Oh wait, there is no such credo.
Well, in any case, the tabloids' persistence seems to have paid off.
I'd almost be willing to believe that they actually paid Simpson and Lachey to split up, like, "Hey, guys, we keep saying you're splitting up, but you keep staying together. You're starting to make us look bad. Umm, I mean worse. So we really need you to actually split up, 'kay? Seriously, we'll pay you."
A while back I saw Cameron Diaz on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and she was talking about how the tabloids keep running stories about her and boyfriend Justin Timberlake's wedding plans. She theorized that the tabloids think that if they keep running the stories often enough that she and Timberlake will say, "Oh, it says here that we're getting married, so I guess it must be true. Let's get married."
I guess it all goes back to that other journalistic credo: if you can't report the news, make it up.
Anyway, good work on the Simpson-Lachey story, guys. Way to break the news two years in advance of it actually happening...
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