Forbes takes its traffic-whoring creation of galleries based on arbitrary and manipulable metrics to new heights today, with the 2009 list of Hollywood's top-earning actresses. Shockingly, it's a battle between Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston! Just like in the tabloids! Nice work, fellas!

"'The question is: how can we construct a story around a set of emotions that our readers are going to relate to? It can come from a genuine tip, or a photo. Or it can come out of our ass,'" says a gossip magazine editor speaking anonymously to the Guardian's Oliver Burkeman. Burkeman has a lengthy piece on celebrity weeklies and their flexible concepts of truth and reportage. READ MORE