the buzz log

Toilet tissue 12-pak, check. Bruce Springsteen exclusive album, check. People Magazine ... wait a minute. Where's In Touch? Where's the National Enquirer? 

The next time shoppers walk into a Wal-Mart, they may not be able to flip through glossies and shove them back into the wrong rack, due to what New York Post is calling a "standoff between magazine publishers" and two mega-wholesalers. Delivery guys Anderson News and Source Interlink want to tack on a 7-cent surcharge on every single issue delivered to retailers, but publishers don't want to pay. Understandable, since that translates to about $150 mil a year, in a business where many titles have already folded.

As publishers are scrambling to switch to two other wholesalers to deliver their foolscap, chain shoppers will be deprived of flipping through Jessica Simpson's weepy reaction to her weight gain or Tom & Katie's latest tiff. It's not just celebrity gossip: Sports Illustrated and Time won't make the stands either. Now we can all panic.

Is that a big deal? Although things are supposed to be resolved in a few weeks, some industry sources have told Folio magazine that the missed deliveries will put some regional publishers "out of business." Folio also reported that Anderson News and Source Interlink shut down, but the wholesalers are denying those rumors.

While slipping and sliding through a glossy is an experience without peer, gossip addicts may have to get their addictive fill online (like Buzz, naturally). Below is a list of the 10 favorite gossip blogs in 2008 searches to fill the aching void.

Most Searched Gossip Blogs on Yahoo!

1. Perez Hilton
2. TMZ
3. OMG
4. Media Takeout
5. Bossip
6. X17
7. Just Jared
8. DListed
9. Hollywood Tuna
10. The Superficial