Dirty Pop delves into the inexplicable media attention earned by the atrocity that is Speidi, and particularly by the bastion of superficiality that is Ms. Montag herself.

This past summer, I interned with the website of a major news network and received an unexpected initiation into the world of celebrity journalism. Though I was assigned to the website’s science and technology section, I often aided with celebrity-related stories, which seemed to exist in infinite abundance.