John Mayer Lays Into The Huffington Post For Jennifer Aniston Rumors

At a concert this past weekend, John Mayer sang one of his songs and before singing it started talking about giving people second chances. Well, if you are a tabloid writer that can mean only one thing, "John & Jen Back Together - Brad's Pain" You know, something like that. Well, instead of a tabloid, the story was written by The Huffington Post. John Mayer took exception to it and says on his blog, that because that site also does serious news that they should also not do gossip. Why? If you are a site that has many employees trying to earn a paycheck, I think they should get readers however they want. Why should they be limited to just news? Can't people be really into politics but also read US Weekly? Can't people be interested in BP and the banking crisis but still like reading about Lindsay? John Mayer thinks not.

"The reason I’m calling you out instead of all the other magazines that make stories up out of thin air is that In Touch and Star Magazine aren’t concurrently writing pieces about Pat Tillman or WikiLeaks. Those other rags know who they are, and even if they’re obnoxious, I’d rather have to live with them because they (and the rest of the world) know where they stand, which doesn’t make them one tenth as dangerous as you are. You’re a stripper wearing reading glasses. Or maybe you’re an insolvent law student willing to dance for a few extra dollars. Either way, it’s uncomfortable to watch you try to wrap yourself around a pole when you have that C-Span scar."

I think John Mayer is wrong. He seems to want to pigeonhole people into one thing or the other. What he is essentially saying is that you can't do tabloids if you want to be taken seriously on news articles. Why? Does he know that Time Magazine started People? Yep, most popular section of the news magazine so they started their own magazine for it.