Under the “Most Watched” Column, and the second one.
The other guys were assholes about it, and I respect her for not thinking it’s news. I agree; it isnt. It’s just fucking tabloid fodder. I guess the press as a whole is getting sick of it. Not the tabloid junkies, of course.
I’ve been disturbed when I see both CNN and Fox News covering Paris Hilton as a lead story literally at the same time (they’re on opposite TVs at my gym).
If there’s a hell for journalists these guys are going there. What a pretentious, humorless bunch of crap. Good to know MSNBC feels that strongly PH is the news of the day. (Woo, free ad for Paris!)
Reminds me of a shortly-post-9/11 article in The Onion headlined “A shattered nation longs to care about stupid bullshit again.” Sure didn’t take long at all.
Another thing that occurs to me: I like how refusal to cover stupid bullshit is also considered newsworthy. It then goes into a loop like this: maybe, considering that stupid bullshit is considered newsworthy, we need someone to point out that no it isn’t. But the fact that we need someone to point it out …