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Ridiculous headline and story of the week: How Will Paris Hilton Survive?
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No, seriously.
If you look at the link (I choose not to follow), it's http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/.... So it's part of their Gossip section. Many newspapers -- especially tabloids, which I believe the Daily News is -- have always had their Gossip sections, with stories every bit as grimy as this one.
When the news came on folded dead trees, it was fairly easy to ignore the Gossip section, or whatever section didn't interest you. You could see the section headline and just skip over it. Or if the section were large enough to warrant its own pull-out, you could just pull it out and throw it away.
But with the Web, "sections" are a pretty fuzzy concept. Stories that were once safely isolated to special interest sections now "leak" into the general news. On the Web, the "front page" is the story everyone reads and links and forwards, not the story some editor decides to put first.
Now how this particulary story got read and linked and forwarded is beyond me. Aren't Ms. Hilton's 15 minutes of fame over yet?
*sigh *
The fact that this story will barely be a ripple, and focused on Paris is why I hate this media...
It's symptomatic. The media covers all stories as if they were celebrity stories.
Is it wrong to hope she doesn't?
Yes. She's a pathetic skank -- the first person I have ever applied that term to, but she earned it -- but not harmful enough to wish her dead.
Destitute and having to work for a living, maybe, but not dead.
That's probably close to the same thing in her mind anyway...
Paris will have no trouble earning a living. She'll do it the same way she's spent the last several years: On her back.
She is, in fact, a skank, and not worthy of our concerns at this time.
You're one of the aristocrats.
(When Penn Jillette says it's not political, he's either conning the audience again, or else, if he's serious, it's one of the few times I've ever seen him be flat-out hands-down no-way wrong about something important -- "The Aristocrats" is one of the most important political jokes in history, and we forget its true philosophical meaning at our peril)
It's the combination of wealth, celebrity, and the unthinking belief that the normal rules don't simply apply to you. And while it doesn't help when other people repeatedly reinforce the latter belief, their guilt as accessories lifts none from your shoulders, either.
If we've got to pick someone to name it after, let's make it someone appropriate, but as wholly and utterly both powerless and irrelevant as possible.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.