The other day, I happened to trip over the October 5 edition of "People," and I accidentally read several pages, including a seemingly innocuous section of "Star Tracks" featuring a few photos of LeeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian.
The smaller picture showed the couple boarding her tour bus. Simple enough, right? Stars are just like us--they board tour buses.
Well, no, there is something far more significant going on here. "People" is sending a message here, not just by what it says--more on this in a moment--but what it does NOT say. There is no reference to the messy circumstances that brought these two together--you know, the whole two marriages being broken up thing.
By avoiding any reference to that situation, when it's the first thing that jumps into anyone's mind when seeing a pic of the couple, "People" is signalling to us that it's time to move on. The mag is using its huge influence in the gossiposphere to loosen up on the two and bestow on them credibility as a "normal" couple.
Now, the bigger picture right next to it, with a topless Cibrian and a bold caption about his "BUFF BOD"? There's no larger symbolic meaning to that. "People" just wants us to know about his buff bod.
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