Is Celebrity Gossip Bad for Our Brains?

Celebrity Gossip: Did you Hear the Latest about Paris-Britney-Lindsay?

By Rabbi Jennifer Krause
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the October 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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In a tabloid-loving, YouTubing, reality-show-crazed world, hooked on TMZ.com and Access Hollywood, you do have to wonder what all this gossip is doing to us. What's the real appeal of tabloid mania?

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