Which came first, the chicken (the story) or the egg (a blog)?

When you read a tabloid magazine article you may wonder, where do they get their information? 
You would think there are diligent reporters pounding keyboards fielding phone calls from sources, and vetting those sources, but the reality is much different. 
The majority of info given to magazines like People come through publicists or the celeb themselves. 
But publicists and their famous clients don't trust the tabloids, so Star 'reporters' are busy trolling the web, reading gossip blogs, looking at paparazzi photos, doing what any of us can do to get info. 
If you are a 'source' for these tabloids, you will know that what you've told them will end up in an upcoming issue. 
"How did [X] know that? [X] must be right!" 
Or you may just know that the lazy reporters have trolled your blog and will inevitably take the info --this doesn't make the information correct or the blogger prescient. 
Someone reading a blog could phone that info into a tabloid in the hopes of making some quick cash, it doesn't make it accurate. 
This issue of Star [below] had two major errors, the fact that LeAnn Rimes does not live in the Hollywood Hills, and the fact that Jake Cibrian's first name is not Austin. Is this from editorial laziness, or from sources who don't really have their facts straight? 
The 'drunk in a closet' stuff is inevitably from a Star reporter reading a blogger's blind item, and the $50 million is a fantasy and highly inflated version of LeAnn Rimes' actual wealth. 
Who wants to read about a $1.2 million divorce? BIG numbers get BIG attention.
While we do believe Mr Ed is in a living hell of his own making with the country crooner, we don't believe he's throwing in the towel--yet. 

Us Weekly's Jennifer Aniston source--her acting coach!

Keeping in our theme of inside job snitches who tattle to the magazines, we have Leigh Kilton-Smith, Jennifer Aniston's longtime pal and acting coach who even travels the world with the former Friends actress. Us Weekly's frizzy haired munchkin Ian Drew receives inside baseball tips on Jen directly from Leigh, which leads to cover stories like "Why Jen Dumped Vince [Vaughn]" or "What Jen Says About Angelina..." you get the picture. Again, the snitch is from the inner sanctum, not a manicurist or limo driver. Above you'll see the slippery, greasy Drew with Sharon Stone, and a giggly Leigh Kilton-Smith behind a camera shy Jen Aniston.

Ever wonder how the magazines get their "insider" information about celebrities?

It's called sources people, and we're not just talking greedy valets or disgruntled former employees, we're talking big wigs, or wanna-be ones, and some you'd never suspect! Hence the tale of the up-and-coming Latina starlet named Lauren Sanchez, who, in 2003 was engaged to super agent Patrick Whitesell. Seems Lauren, then a virtual unknown, wanted to up her profile, and began feeding Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck [doomed] wedding info to the BUG-eyed, tumor-headed, super sleeze Ken Baker at Us Weekly (above, middle) in order to get in the friendly fashion pages of the tabloid rag. Her fiance (now husband) Whitesell represented poor Ben, who as being shilled out to Us Weekly so that Lauren could work her way up the celebrity ladder. Just three months before the wedding that never was, a then unknown Lauren Sanchez appeared in the Fashion Police "Look of the Week" section, beating out real celebrity fashionistas for the coveted spot. Lauren's leaks to bug-eyed Baker must have worked, seven years later she is a co-host on the TV news show Extra with Mario Lopez. And that, my friends, is how the magazines get their information. More secret sources to come...