<![CDATA[Gawker: pot meet kettle]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: pot meet kettle]]> http://gawker.com/tag/potmeetkettle http://gawker.com/tag/potmeetkettle <![CDATA[Angry LAPD Chief To Britney And 'Airheads': You Want To Avoid Paparazzi? Try Staying Home!]]> In today's most dramatic case of Hollywood hypocrisy, LAPD chief William Bratton has reportedly lashed out at anyone in favor of Councilman Dennis Zine's proposal for a new Britney Spears-inspired paparazzi law. Bratton went so far as to criticize the press for covering "airheads" and also suggested stars get psychiatric help in his monthly interview with KPCC. Which all sounds up to par and somewhat sensible until you remember this is the same Bratton who himself is fond of "traipsing all over town" with his press-happy wife. From LA Observed:

What we need is Britney Spears to stay home instead of traipsing all over town. That would solve the problem. We don't need additional laws...I've got laws coming out my ears to deal with this issue."

As Zine told Access Hollywood last week, "it cost $25,000 to take Britney Spears to the hospital...Taxpayers paid for that." But Bratton, who's married to Court TV correspondent Rikki Kleiman, isn't going to reprise Ahnold's signing of 2006's anti-paparazzi law following Lindsay Lohan's assualt charges against an overly anxious pap on the highway. His decision seems to fly in the face of a 2003 interview he did with the NY Times, in which he gushed about moving to LA, prepared to attend the Oscars, invited Adrien Brody over for dinner, and positively swooned when he got the chance to take a picture out and about with Mickey Rourke. Worse yet, the title of Rikki's best-selling book? Fairy Tales Do Come True: How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny.

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<![CDATA['Good' Magazine Loves Women, Except On Its Staff]]> The new issue of earnest (bordering-on-sanctimonious!) magazine Good has arrived! It's the first anniversary issue, so there's a bit of self-congratulatory back-thumping and tabulations of how much money the magazine and its readers have donated to charity. That part is nice. There's also a charticle, "Girl Power," about global politics that announces, "Half of us are female, but only 10 of our leaders are." Which is funny, because a look at the Good masthead doesn't reveal too many staffers of the female persuasion, either!

Out of 21 editorial staffers—including Owner/Founder Ben Goldhirsh, and the photo, design, and web staffs—Good has six women. Three of them are in copy/research, one of them is an editorial assistant, and two others work on the web. So really, there's just one woman, Features Editor Siobhan O'Connor, in a significant masthead position. There are several male staffers with gender-ambiguous names! But a quick Google proves that Casey Caplowe, Morgan Clendaniel, and even Jaime Wolf are all men.

Sure, world leaders and the Good masthead are hardly comparable entities. But if you're going down that road about the wrongs of the world, well, you might start in your own backyard. Hiring a few more people who didn't go to Brown or Andover might be a start. (No, St. Albans and Harvard grad Al Gore III doesn't count.)

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