i think you misunderstood me. of course commercial speech does not enjoy the same level of constitutional protection as political speech. but bad news does have a political agenda--one that order must be imposed. that is a right wing agenda and you are playing right into it, violet.
again the press makes the rules, we would suffer in comparison to the multinationals who own the media when order is imposed from above.
and gossip about stars have existed as long as the movies themselves in spite of your claim to the opposite. fifty years ago there were stories about telullah bankhead not wearing underwear which are similar to britany spears' hoochiegate.
you have a choice of what and where you read and write. there are journals like the nation and the new yorker which take the approach you suggest but i doubt you subscribe to them because you don't mention them. you want to impose your own values on pop culture because you imagine it might improve society. it won't.