pudge's Journal: Media Crap

In the wake of all this Paris Hilton coverage, people are defending it by saying things like, "when you ask people what they watch on TV they say PBS NewsHour, but they actually watch American Idol" and "we are obssessed with Paris Hilton" and "we know it is bad for us and we feel guilty but we can't get enough."

I do watch NewsHour. I don't have a problem with American Idol. I could not care less about Paris Hilton.

Indeed, Colbert joked the other night that Paris Hilton was back in jail, and he was sad to break the news to us. The joke being that everyone already knew. If I had not glanced at CNN.com's front page the other day and saw that, I would not have known. Colbert's saying so WOULD have been news to me.

I am not trying to say I am better than anyone else. I am saying, if you really think NewsHour is good and Paris Hilton is bad, then do what I do and change the damned channel.

And if you haven't seen it yet, check out Tommy Chong ripping an MSNBC anchor a new one over their inane coverage of Paris Hilton. Now, he got a little stupid when he implied MSNBC (home of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews) is being controlled b the Republican Party, but the rest is really good.

change the damned channel....

[cascadefx]

Or don't watch TV at all (well mostly... I still see it at my in-laws. If I need to see something, it will be posted somewhere.

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[FroMan]

Agreed. One of the benefits of living in the boonies is that we only get two channels, and I am not even sure what they are. I think one is a pbs and the other a college station, not that I ever try to tune them in.

When we visit my folks they have cable and the TV is constantly on some news channel. All they do is repeat stories every half hour. I can see the appeal of following celebrities lives, because if you are watching the same set of news on half hour intervals you don't have much of your own.