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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

The Drama

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William Booth tracks Paris: It is Day One of mansion confinement for Paris Hilton. Electronic monitoring system? Activated. Mrs. Beasley's Gourmet Cupcakes? Delivered. Her walled enclave in West Hollywood? Surrounded.



By cameras. Around noon, a crazed scrum of photographers was fighting to capture the drama of a guy arriving at chez Hilton with a carton of organic dog food, presumably for Tinkerbell, the love-starved Chihuahua.



Be mad! Be glad! You don't get a vote. She is out of the slammer. Hilton was released from the county jail early Thursday because of an undisclosed medical condition and will serve 40 days confined to her yellow-ribboned home in the hills above Sunset Strip.…

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