It's All About Them

Week before last, I was sitting in a walk-in clinic thumbing through magazines. I opened a copy of Chatelaine (hey, sometimes they do have good simple recipes) and found on the table of contents a remarkable three-fer: an article each by my three least favourite Canadian journalists, Rebecca Eckler, Heather Mallick and Leah Mclaren.

I won't belabour you with my disdain and snorts of disgust over their "me myself & I journalism", their hyperbolic self-referentialism, the smarmy facetiousness, the sense of oh-it's-so-hard-to-be-me, ugh, the overall overweening sense of entitlement... if you've read anything by any of these three, you know what I mean.

Now here's something from today's news, a veritable apotheosis of solipsistic narcissism from on Spoiled Sister:

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Eckler says film Knocked Up too close to home

Last Updated: Monday, June 4, 2007 | 3:15 PM ET
CBC Arts

Calgary-based journalist Rebecca Eckler says she is suing the makers of the comedy Knocked Up for stealing her story.
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