by Patrick Appel
Alyssa Rosenberg flips through the tabloids:
Relatively neutral photographs are interpreted whatever way will pique pageviews and cover-lines, or read for body language retroactively, as with the snaps of Kristen Stewart at dinner with Rupert Sanders, her married director on Snow White and the Huntsman with whom it emerged that she was having an affair. No touching? No problem: Us Weekly read the fleeting expressions on their faces with all the voraciousness and certainty of augurs picking through entrails. Sources are "close friends" with the stars in question, or "in a position to know." Health experts have never treated the celebrities they analyze. The story can change radically from one week to the next, and nobody cares, no corrections required, and it doesn't occur to anyone to question the utter inconsistency of the narratives tabloids sell us.
The Dish 