Why are we hearing every nuance of Britney Spears' inability to provide even merely competent parenting to her two sons? "Normal" people would have had their kids yanked by now. And Paris Hilton? I'm glad she's not going to Rwanda (or maybe she is). But she was someone in Europe for some fashion show. And maybe Lindsay Lohan is actually cleaning up her life. I hope she is.
But this is not news. In fact, very much of what's shown on "legitimate news" shows is actually news. It's histrionics designed to turn one's focus away from "real" news. No, we're constantly being assaulted by these immaterial stories as though they matter. If only I could figure out how to convince the powers that be that these things are truly unimportant to the public at large, and the harping/hyping of these irrelevancies drags the reporting source down to that level or lower.
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