I dare you to call the police. I’ll be checking the Palm Beach Post.com for the jackass that gets arrested for placing a call for such a stupid reason.

I can’t wait. I’ll finally be able to see your loser face plastered all over the front page. Then, José will have a reason to talk about his stalker — YOU.

What business is it of ours, not only to read this gossipy stuff (just report, in one-inch of news space: “Evert and Norman filed for divorce” or “Evert and Norman announced a formal separation” or whatever the basic news angle here is.

Celebrity gossip, and definitely pictures of celebrity’s children, really have no business being included in such “news” stories.

Is the dwindling newspaper-reading public REALLY interested in stories and photos like this, or has some higher-up at the Post come up with the great idea that the only way newspapers can compete with say, TMZ, is to adopt their methods? Won’t work.

TV, tabloids, and gossip shows will always beat you with their own specialities, and plugging stories like these as “Breaking News” on your front pages is only going to turn off mature readers who want to read news stories that are relevant to their own lives, and celebrity public gossip surely is not.

What about sitting down in an idea-generating session, and covering the real news stories that people want to know about: the wars in the Middle East, the increasing unemployment rate, the health care mess, etc. Localize these important issues, make them relevant to readers with an i.q. over 100, and forget trying to pander to the young/dumb audience that only feeds on celebrity droppings.

That’s not the answer to the news business turnaround — to up the fluffy bunny stories in hopes of gaining more eyeballs. Like I said, the tabloids and gossip tv are just light years ahead of the heavily promoted columnists like Lambiet, and sadly, pushing such notions seems to encourage your “regular” staff and columnists to think that they have to start writing silly billy columns too about personal and private lives, in order to compete, so you shortchange the true newsgathering and reporting there too…

I’m not saying this for my own ego, but hoping you put the fluffy stuff in it’s place — as dessert, not the main course of your newspaper work.

Thanks for hearing me out! Good luck with the hard news coverage — if you really work those beats, you might be playing less “catch up” on the corruption, crime and chaos stories that eventually must be covered as hard news.