Scouring the Black Table for Insight Into the Jared Paul Stern Scandal

From A.J. Daulerio‘s Black Table interview with the gossip columnist now embroiled in an FBI probe, January, 2005:

BT: As a former (and part-time) gossip dog, can you name one instance in your career where you just said, “I can’t do this anymore. I feel like such a piece of sh*t…”?

JPS: Publicists try to play the guilt card all the time and they love to yap about “karma,” but it’s hard to feel sorry for celebs with oceans of money who employ armies of sociopathic assh*les to call you up and bitch about every little item. You sign away your privacy when you become a star or boldface bigshot and agree to play this game. You took our money, so we own you. If you don’t like it buy an island and stay on it. Give that gullible dumbass John Q. Public back his $50 million or shut the fuck up and entertain us. Guilt is for sissies.

Also, and we’re asking this seriously now: Can Stern use the “I Was Researching a Story on Gossip Payola” defense? It worked for Winona Ryder.

ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: JARED PAUL STERN, GOSSIP MONGER [Black Table]
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