Apparently we want much more gossip and much less real information. That's one way to look at the drop in circulation of magazines like Time and Newsweek and the surging sales of People. But another is that people are continuing to abandon filtered news -- processed and presented by gatekeepers -- in favor of finding their own on the Web. Since gossip is by nature fluff that doesn't matter and doesn't have to be true, there is really noting to "filter."
