Today I stumbled onto a story about Britney Spears. She's set to pose topless for photos for Allure magazine.
I wanted to find out more, so I went to Google's News website. (In case you haven't used it, Google News is a fantastic aggregate of thousands of different news sources.)
I used the search function to query "Britney Spears topless" and was shocked by the number of returns. There were 5.
To give you something with which to compare that, I made several other queries.
Here are my results:
Robert Blake trial - 2570 returns
Jay Leno gag order - 511 returns
Paris Hilton sidekick - 432 returns
Petra Nemcova tsunami - 124 returns
Peter Stomare creepy - 15 returns
Timothy Olyphant movie - 10 returns
Martin Denny waikiki - 9 returns
Britney Spears topless - 5 returns
Kirstie Alley fatty - 4 returns
(Google aggregates every 15 minutes. You'll get different search results at different times, so if you try it, your numbers won't match mine.)
So few news sources are carrying the Britney story, I wasn't able to find a single U.S. source.
Could it be she's nearing her 15th minute of fame?