Comments on: Forget Paris

By: Gatton

Gatton — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:29:47 +0000

I assume she became famous initially from the sex tape. Personally I am amazed people are so fascinated with vacuous people like celebrities?

I rather like the episode of South Park that poked fun at her. As the little girl asked her friends what is Paris famous for they said:

“She’s rich! She’s stuck up! She’s a whore!”

And that pretty much sums it up.

“You’re a dead man Apgar!” Sorry I just got done reading the new reviews

By: Witte

Witte — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:28:00 +0000

Jammer, I agree with everything you said in your rant. But I honestly think her 15 minutes of fame are OVER. And the moment it happened is when they snapped the photo of her crying in the police car. Much of her celebrity was based on having a certain amount of arrogance and dare I say “street cred.” That photo pretty much dashed away her perceived image in society. I can’t imagine anyone thinking about her in quite the same way.

I also applaud the legal system for at least not treating a celebrity like they’re above the law.

With that said, I do feel sorry for her on some level. She’s going through something very horrible and it’s something she could have avoided if she had just be a little more responsible.

By: Mom trumps TNG

Mom trumps TNG — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:55:59 +0000

Last night Jay Leno’s monologue covered the Paris media circus, where, for over 2 hours Friday morning the media, including the L.A. NBC affiliate, followed her “motorcade” from her house to the courthouse.

After making jokes about the extended coverage and how even the Iraq war paled in comparison media-wise, Leno played the local NBC tape of “breaking news” that occurred during the Paris coverage. He stressed that this was the real footage and hadn’t been doctored in any way.

The announcer mentioned that there was “breaking news” that they were switching to “while we’re waiting for Paris to come out” (of the courthouse). The story involved the replacement of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, by Chief of Naval Operations, Mike Mullen.

Jay noted that after all of nine seconds of coverage for this story, NBC returned to the “big story,” Paris Hilton.

You think our priorities are a bit skewed?

By: B. Stewart

B. Stewart — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:22:09 +0000

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By: stallion

stallion — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:52:42 +0000

It’s interesting to see people who don’t talk about Paris Hilton talk about her. I hear Anderson Cooper refused to do a story about her but in this case it was just so big that even he couldn’t ignore it as much as he want to. Well I’m not going to be celebrity Paris Hilton being in jail. She did it to herself but it is obvious she is going through a tough time and I’m not going to celebrate that.

By: Jamahl Epsicokhan

Jamahl Epsicokhan — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:13:56 +0000

^ This is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation. Even the people who deplore the coverage regarding celebs like Hilton are forced to cover it because news and revenue are so intertwined in the media today.

The AP did something similar where they decided they weren’t going to write about Paris Hilton (or maybe it was Britney Spears) unless the story was actually newsworthy. I think they were forced to abandon the policy after a week or so because they were missing the boat on so many fluff stories that the public would seek out elsewhere.

Then there are people like me, who hate it and then turn around and use it to fill a blog entry or column. (If I were truly against it, I would abstain from discussing it altogether.)

I think reality is somewhere in between total silence and “breaking news” 2-hour coverage.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:23:41 +0000

^I was about about to do the same thing with my blog, but I don’t want to be considered Hypocritical if I did. I am embarrassed to be in this country the last few days. This whole thing is nothing but a circus, and oh by the way, I thought there was still a War. Instead of what really should pass as news, we as a society have been so fixated on this whole Paris Hilton thing that it’s embarrassing. It’s hard not to care when it’s the only thing being talked about.