It amazes me how things have changed as we entered the 21st century. No longer do we look up to people of high moral character, and try to emulate them. Instead the inane are trust upon the alter and worshiped as gods.
At one time they were the fodder that fed the supermarket check-out tabloids and were the domain of a few. Then main stream media picked up the gauntlet and legitimized them and suddenly the masses flocked to these moronic so called celebrities.
The more stupid or outrages the act, that much more in coverage. Medical discoveries or world changing events are worthy of only a blip on the screen, where-as a Paris or Brittany are worthy of breaking news status as they stumble from one calamity to another.
Do we need a blow by blow description of Donald and Rosie feud, for weeks on end. So Brittany listened when her mother told her about having clean underwear, and the consequences in case you ended up in an emergency room. She eliminated the problem and it still garners coverage.
Normally I wouldn't deem this worthy of a comment, but since our youth are starting to become clones of these idiots as they watch shows where the parents are mindless wonders and the kids are supreme rulers with attitudes, and this they take pride in.
No longer is talent a gauge by which athletes, movie stars, singers and such judged by. Rather it is by the arrest records and outrages acts.
You want five minutes of fame. DO SOMETHING STUPID.
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I think the pendulum of stupid news is reaching the (don't know the scientific word for it, but...) furthest point of its swing from center. Hopefully, stupidity making the headline news is getting old and boring, and we'll start to see more headlines reserved for real news. It may be a generational thing...the current 20-something generation seems to love this sort of trivial here-today forgotten tomorrow tabloid content news. But since the beginning of history, kids have rebelled by being different from their parents. So when the current generation's children reach "news-reading" age, maybe they'll demand the opposite of their parents' stupid news content...maybe they'll demand some news with substance, and leave Britney's missing panties for the back of a Trivial Pursuit card.
How I wish that were to be true. But it seems that it has permeated thru all levels of society from teens to AARP members. The demise in newspaper circulation and serious news casters.Thank god for BBC news and Public Radio, or else we would be forced to rely on the filtered news we are force fed each day.
The reality is that people in my generation no longer want their news from newspapers or television because they can get it much faster on the internet. The 18-34 demographic is very desired because it's the future. For this reason, television news and print news has to get flashier to compete. So these media outlets pick up crap stories because everyone knows that naked sells.
It's your demographic group that this post is geared too. The MTV generation needs to be entertainted every minute of the day. Attention spans that last only a few minutes. It's easier to jump from a two minute snipet to the next on the internet rather then concentrating on an in depth article in a paper. The newspapers are just trying to get those people away from all those trash magazines and into the paper that by some remote chance an article of substance might be consumed.
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