Paris Hilton

I told myself that I wasn't going to blog about Paris Hilton. But here I am!

After reading several blogs on the subject, including Joe Rogan's on MySpace and Neil Rubin's in the Detroit News, I discovered that I am seriously upset about the whole mess.

But - before you jump to conclusions - I'm not upset at or about Paris Hilton herself. She's gotten into a lot of trouble, not unlike many young girls her age; but Paris only gets publicity because she's considered a celebrity. If one of our kids, God Forbid, should pull the same idiotic stunts, they'd do time and they wouldn't make the evening news or the front page of every gossip rag in the world.

Which brings me to the reason that I'm upset - THE MEDIA. In our world today, we have crazed South American leaders rewriting laws to subjugate their citizens; we have hundreds of thousands of people being displaced and murdered in Darfur; we have global warming threatening entire species; we have the United States refusing to admit that we are a serious part of the environmental problem and legislating away protection for whole habitats; we are involved in a war in the Middle East that has been reduced to statistical reporting (8 US soldiers killed today in Iraq) to make way for lengthy reviews of celebs' latest misdeeds.

Surely, these causes are worthy of more than a passing mention. Surely, we - as a nation and a world - need to focus on the future we are leaving behind for our children and their children, rather than devoting hours and pages of coverage to which actor was the most publicly embarrassing today.

Not that long ago, 'Entertainment News' was limited to a brief 2-3 minute segment of the Evening News. And the Evening News (regardless of which channel you watched) didn't lead off their broadcast with stories and photos of actors getting into trouble. Celebrities didn't make the front page or breaking news reports unless they did something that we used to call "news worthy". Sadly, O J Simpson was involved in something "news worthy".

There are magazines devoted to people-watching, if that's where your interests lie. I've even glanced through a couple in my life. Didn't much care for them. But, that is where I believe that 99.9% of these sensationalized stories belong.

Can we please get back to reporting the NEWS that really impacts our lives, and leave the actors where they belong, on the movie screen?

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