Love Bird Alert™: Successful reality show romances.

Publication: People
Date: 12 Sept. 2011

People is one of the most positive of the supermarket rags, trailing only OK! in the percentage of positive to negative stories. Both of these cheery publications achieve this by going all Pollyanna from time to time, as People does this week by recounting the romantic successes of reality TV shows. Many of their happy couples met on shows like Survivor or The Amazing Race, but the cover picture is of the great (only?) success of The Bachelor franchise, Ryan and Trista Sutter, who met on The Bachelorette back in 2003, got hitched and are still together.

I give my best wishes to the happy couple, but this story is kind of like someone shilling for the tobacco industry stating the correct fact that some people smoke all their lives and they don't die of lung cancer, emphysema or congestive heart disease.

Bun in the oven alert™: Bachelorette baby exclusive!

Publication: Weekly Life & Style

Date: 5 September 2011



Fresh trash on Thursdays! Weekly Life & Style has a picture of the latest pair from that miserable romantic failure factory The Bachelorette with a baby exclusive.





If this is true and all goes according to form, the child will be just another "bastard in a basket!"

On the rocks alert: Jennifer Love Hewitt rejected by Ben from The Bachelorette.

Publication: In Touch

Date: 29 August 2011



Fresh trash on Thursdays! In Touch tells us Jennifer Love Hewitt has been seeing Ben Flajnik from The Bachelorette but that he decided she wasn't good enough for the likes of him.



Reality TV stars dumping real celebrities. The world has gone mad.

Bells Are Ringing Alert™ and On The Rocks Alert: This week's stories about The Bachelorette.

Publications: OK!, In Touch, Us Weekly, National Enquirer
Date: 8 August 2011

The stories this week about The Bachelorette either focus on Ashley or on J.P. Here are the headlines about her.

• National Enquirer: Bachelorette was rigged!
  Ashley's fake script and tears
• Us Weekly: Bachelorette Exclusive: Ashley says yes!
  

And the ones about J.P.

• OK!: The Bachelorette: J.P.'s secrets revealed
• In Touch: JP's secret double life
  Ashley fooled again!
  He's still madly in love with his ex, Stephanie
  A shocking celeb hook-up
  The real reason he went on the show
  Why marrying him could be Ashley's worst mistake ever!
  

This is why the gossip rags love the reality shows. They can write whatever they want without fear of losing access.

Bells Are Ringing Alert™: A proposal on The Bachelorette

Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 1 August 2011

Because the break-up of J. Lo and Marc Anthony took up so much space this week, other stories get short shrift. No Teen Mom, thank Odin, Krishna and the little baby Jebus, and only one update on the latest season of The Bachelorette. Here are the headlines from Weekly Life & Style.

• Ashley says yes in Fiji
• 3.5 carat ring from her dream guy
• She gushes to Life and Style "I'M SO HAPPY"
• JP says "I love you"
• Her romantic date with Ben F.

I can see why she's so happy. She gets to travel, she got a ring from a guy who tells her he loves her, AND she still gets to have romantic dates with other guys.