Anna Nichole Smith stories, however, presumably are still fair game.
On Feb. 13, the Associated Press declared its plans to boldly go where few wire services would dare to go in this day and age: the no–Paris Hilton zone.
“Next week,” entertainment editor Jesse Washington wrote in an e-mail memo obtained by The Transom, “the print team is planning an unconventional experiment: We are NOT going to cover Paris Hilton.
If you’re going to take the journalistic high ground, take it: Stop circling like a fucking vulture around the Anna Nichole circus, and demand that government sources go on the record.

Court clears way for Smith’s Bahamas burial…
A Florida appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for Anna Nicole Smith to be buried next to her son…