Friday, June 8, 2007
The Paris Distraction
As coverage of the Paris Hilton case continues to invade our newscreens, one has to question who benefits from such distractions from real news that effects us all (i.e, the economy, health care, unemployment rates, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the genocide in Darfur).
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Good point. Who comes to mind?
A couple very articulate answer's come from Chomsky, unsurprisingly, in Manufacturing Consent, and Cable News Confidential by Cohen and Hightower. The Chomsky is, of course, a meticulously laid out and researched analysis. The Cohen is an insider's POV, with lots of personal anecdotes about corporate values and repression of truth where Cohen worked -- MSNBC, Fox, and, if I recall, CNN.
This kind of thing is something to bear in mind with the controversies that will continue to arise over Net neutrality, as the cable-laying and satellite giants like AT&T continue to try to gain the right to charge content providers for allowing people to access their content.
This type of thing probably shouldn't have any effect on me but it does. I'm sad. Sad that this is newsworthy material. There is so much going on in the world being overshadowed from time to time by useless information sold as news stories. The Ducks won the Stanley cup but with Paris's big ordeal their victory was swept under the rug. I'm not the biggest hockey fan nor do I think that's necessarily some huge story but this Paris case is overblown. I just don't care.
This is exactly what is wrong with the media today. They make a spectacle out of the point that someone shouldn't become a spectacle. What is their point? She's going to jail, whether deserved or not, she's going. Ok. Lets move on....what impact is this having on our kids, society, goverment, economy...none. She is a distraction.
Exactly dgirl1322. Even if we accept that such cosmopolitan nonsense is newsworthy, which I personally do not, we, as a society should move on with lightning quickness. Instead this stuff gets top story for days on end. Unbelieveable.
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