This is Not About Paris Hilton
July 1st, 2007 by Joe Hack
I look at the daily newspapers. I look at news online. I look in vain for any evidence that they actually contain anything that even remotely resembles news. In case we forget, there are allied forces of occupation in Iraq, civil war edges ever closer, the body-bag count rises every day. Meanwhile over in Afghanistan events spiral out of control, drug traffic to the west is greater than under the taleban, and no-one has anything that resembles an exit plan. And those are just the messes Bush and Blair caused. War, pestilence and famine on a biblical scale stalk the continent of Africa, corrupt dictatorships are propped up by greedy western governments, the planets melting and crooked politicians smile as they steal your trust. Surely in amongst that lot theres something worth reporting that the news media can get its teeth into ? You’d think ! But all I see is wall-to-wall Paris bloody Hilton.
Hell I’ve got nothing against the girl. She’s probably no worse than any other air-head with too much money what is this international obsession with ‘celebrity‘ thats turned the news media into trivial gossip magazines for the mentally challenged ? They say its a reflection of the society we live in. The lonely fragmented lives where we have no real friends or sense of neighborhood or social support networks. No more gossip over the garden fence about local folks. We live in a world where characters in soaps and people famous just for being famous have taken the place of real people as our topics of conversation. The young have no real role-models except the air-head ‘celebs‘ they’re supposed to aspire to be like. Well if thats true its so damn sad. Get a life ! The way politics is these days we desperately need the counter-balance of a principled, brave press to hold the liars and wrong-doers to account on our behalf. Is it happening. Hell no !
Anyway, when you’re in the shit the best thing to do is hold your nose and get the hell out of it as quick as you can,. So no more Paris Hilton, right ? This is not about her. Its about you. Read a book. Take a walk. Give someone a hug. Scratch your ass. Anything. Just throw the worthless, empty celebrity trash in the waste-basket where it belongs and leave it there. Believe me, there is life after Paris Hilton.Tags:Afghanistan Africa allied forces Blair Bush celebrity celebs dictatorships drug traffic evidence famous gossip Hilton Iraq media mentally challenged money news obsession Paris Paris Hilton politicians politics press Scratch your ass society taleban War who gives a shit anyway Zeitgeist Zoo
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