The writer who profiled Britney Spears for last week's Rolling Stone just cannot believe the audacity of Spears' handlers. One handler tried to sell her Spears access for $2 million, editorial control over her article and the right to name the cover photographer, the writer said on CNN today. This handler is called Klaus, and the Rolling Stone writer, Vanessa Grigoriadis, thinks he is "just really naive" and doesn't "understand the way that United States media works at this point." After the jump, Grigoriadis' full description of the cash demand and why she is, of course, dead wrong about the American media.

Grigoriadis made her comments to Howard Kurtz on CNN's Reliable Sources:

Vanessa, you tried to get an interview with Britney, and you wound up dealing with one of her intermediaries, a guy named Klaus (ph).



Tell us what happened.



VANESSA GRIGORIADIS, "ROLLING STONE": Well, through some sort of miscommunication, Klaus (ph) was under the impression that I was going to give him $2 million in order to have an interview and a photo shoot with Britney. And he's just one of the many people around her who is, you know, essentially somebody who realizes that there is somebody who's very valuable to be booked in any way, as a sponsorship, a media interview, a restaurant opening, whatever. Let's take this girl and do something with her.



KURTZ: Well, obviously you didn't cough up the cash, but I understand he asked for pre-approval of the article and something about who was going to take the pictures?



GRIGORIADIS: Sure, yes. No, the people that I was dealing with, I mean, essentially these people are just really naive, they don't understand the way that United States media works at this point, which is like there's no pre- approval over articles. We don't let your friends take pictures for the cover of "Rolling Stone" magazine.



It might be as easy as that? I don't know. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.



KURTZ: So revealing.

Hopefully Grigoriadis had some time after the CNN shoot for a chat with the other guest on her segment, Ryan Smith of U.S. "OK!" magazine. Smith might have disabused her of the notion that Spears' people "don't understand the way that United States media works at this point" by explaining how his magazine late last year paid the Spears family $1 million for the exclusive news and interview about Spears' sister's pregnancy.

Or he could have reminded her how People magazine acknowledged it paid for pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby Shiloh. It disputed the widely-reported figure of $4.1 million but did not name an alternate price.

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