Addicted to Celebrity

Griffith Review is a quarterly of fine writing and debate, presenting outstanding new writing about topical subjects. Contributors to Addicted to Celebrity include David Malouf on the cult of celebrity, Bille Browne on the price of fame, Creed O'Hanlon on growing up famous, Catherine Lumby on the democratisation of celebrity, Bruce Page on the importance of the Murdochs, Peter Manning on bias in the Australian media, Gideon Haigh on the crisis in journalism, Matthew Condon on the perfect story, Margaret Simons on rumour, gossip and defamation, Stephen Stockwell inside the techniques of spin, Bill Bowtell on the unacceptable price of managing political debate, Brian Urquart on the lessons of the past year, Stephen Sewell on propaganda and popular culture, Ann Curthoys on the new McCarthyism, Brendan Pearson on the Bush presidency, Tony Preston-Stanley on three months in Baghdad, Michael McKernan on learning to debate and Laurie Hergenhan on the other side of the war.