Are you as sick of hearing about Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears as I? Why do the media bombard us with the sordid details in these folks lives? I do not want to hear about Smith, Paris Hilton, or any other celebrity. Period. Their lives do not interest me at all.
Whereas I believe in personal freedom -the freedom to do stupid things and to live a useless life- I think we should return to better times and better people by shunning undesirable behavior. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we -regular Americans- are like the images Hollywood creates when there is non-stop coverage of people like Smith and Spears.
Just what have Spears, Smith, Hilton done to deserve the media's attention.
Nothing positive in my view.
It is the dumbing down of the media. Instead of covering the millions of ordinary Americans who do great things every day the media is fascinated with celebrity. Perhaps this is because most journalists today are more interested in becoming a celebrity than in doing the hard work necessary to report the real news from real Americans. The media is following the path of least resistance created by the radicalism of the 1960s - no limits on behavior, no rules, no right or wrong, just modern hedonism at work.
The Smith, Hilton, and Spears (numerous others also) cases are the logical outcome of the
degeneration of American pop culture.
Shame on the media.
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- Retired, a veteran, former PC Vol, married to same woman for 40 years. Libertarian - conservative political views - a C-SPAN junkie. More than 120,000 miles on my bicycles since 1991 and still spinning.
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