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Not only do they "retreat into bedrooms which seem as self-contained as an astronaut's capsule, each with its own TV, stereo-system and wired-up computer," but into an "increasingly self-referential and self-validating" worldview.
You're right about the magazine's sameness, however; it's the same damn thing each week, and it's the same as the other slick, self-referential, celebrity gossip mags around.
There's the black Heathers category , the most recent exercise being the reportedly awful Jawbreaker . There's the self-referential horror category as manifest in the Scream movies.
I do have one more somber thought, though, because I really am troubled about this, even though I can see no way to let off even a tiny rant without personally contributing to the very problem of which I speak: I do believe the press, and in particular the broadcast press, took leave of its collective senses last weekend when that little plane disappeared--surely not the first time such a thing has happened, but I am afraid that the net result, following day after day of relentless, nonstop, overblown, breathless, self-referential, nearly entirely content-free coverage, has been the transformation of a single publicly shared tragedy into something venomous.
Ray's works--including portraits of him masturbating and a fiberglass re-creation of an auto wreck--are faulted for being self-referential, overly clever, and emotionless.