What does it say about us when we trumpet trivial nonsense.
Last night CNN interupted Wolf Blitzer who was interviewing Bill Cosby concerning urban problems and education. Breaking news. Paris Hilton was arriving at Larry King's studio.
Paula Zahn had a ticker on her show counting down the minutes and the seconds to King's interview with Paris Hilton.
This morning CNN news was about two things, first of which was Paris Hilton.
Joe Scarborough on MSNBC was doing his show following and criticizing CNN's endless coverage of the Paris Hilton story the night before. This went on and on. Finally a viewer e-mailed him and said that all CNN was doing was covering Paris Hilton and all he was doing was covering CNN's coverage of Paris Hilton. He laughed and said touchee! The writer was correct.
And, of course, Elizabeth Edwards was interviewed today on all the shows and Ann Coulter is being interviewed by all these shows.
Meanwhile...
At hearings in LA the sheriff had to justify as to why he let Ms. Hilton out of prison early. This hearing was held BEFORE the hearing discussing the issues of a woman who died on the floor of the waiting room in an LA hospital with her family and other people calling 911 to help her because she was obviously in major trouble and the medical staff wouldn't see her. Priorities.
Meanwhile...
Our troops are in two wars overseas and each day young American soldiers are killed and/or grievously wounded.
Healthcare remains an issue for people.
Urban poverty continues to be on the rise.
The environment is in trouble.
The poor are getting poorer and the middle class is shrinking.
Oil prices have stymied economic growth (unless you are an oil company.)
And Paris Hilton and the coverage of Paris Hilton are the lead stories.
1 comment:
Excellent post John!
Thousands dead in a war.
Millions with out affordable health care.
tens of millions living in poverty.
Tens of thousands of foreclosures.
Massive energy shortages.
Famine.
But we HAVE to know about poor poor abused and opressed Paris.
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