To the left is the actual front page of Today’s New York Post, and I must say that they are spot on and I got a good laugh out of it!
When I first heard about Paris Hilton about, oh, two years ago, I already didn’t like her. She was an annoying anorexic media (and other) whore looking for attention. Needless to say, I have never once watched her show and frankly don’t give a damn about her. But, alas, I cannot avoid her. At least every two days I see her somewhere on television, or on the internet, or in a newspaper doing something dumb to get attention.
“Oh, boo hoo! I don’t want to go to jail! Oh, boo hoo! Mommy, save me! Oh boo hoo! No one buys my CDs!” I say lock her up and throw away the key, if not in a prison then in a mental institution.
In all seriousness, though, I wish the media would stop giving her and other “celebrities” (and in this context, “celebrity” is someone who’s 20 minutes of fame are up) like her attention. I don’t care about some over-privileged whore who had to go to jail for *GASP* 45 (25) days. I don’t care if Mr. Mel Gibson is a racist. And I certainly don’t care what Britney Spears is doing in bare feet in a bathroom.
I honestly wouldn’t mind if I saw one or two blurbs about this shit on the news. And I don’t mind someone like Jay Leno using her for joke fodder. But when her story is above everything else that’s actually important, it pisses me off. Okay, I get it, some douche in Hollywood has the “inside scoop” of Paris Hilton’s attire the pokey. You don’t need to devote a ten minute segment on it on CNN. Isn’t this why we have shows like Entertainment Tonight and the E! Entertainment Network? To keep this shit off the real news programs?
I suppose it comes down to two things, which, coincidentally, are linked: Money and Ratings. If this kind of shit didn’t pull in ratings, you would hear about it once in a news cast and never hear of it again unless there is an actual development such as getting released from prison early, not what she is or isn’t wearing.
