AP cracking down with new rules--Ebert

""The crowning blow came this week when the once-magisterial Associated Press imposed a 500-word limit on all of its entertainment writers," writes Roger Ebert.

• "Worse, the AP wants its writers on the entertainment beat to focus more on the kind of brief celebrity items its clients apparently hunger for: ...

Affairs, divorces, addiction, disease, success, failure, death watches, tirades, arrests, hissy fits, scandals, who has been 'seen with' somebody, who has been 'spotted with' somebody,

• and 'top ten' lists of the above."" via Poynter.org/Romenesko