Aussie Meedja
The following vicious, though entertaining, extract from the Crikey! newsletter outlines the sad state of affairs that is our media:
Overnight Australian time a young Los Angeles resident was jailed for 23 days after a series of minor driving offences. This is bigger news than China's reluctance to pursue some sort of solution to its contribution to global warming and thus save the planet.
According to Media Monitors, the incarceration of Paris Hilton has received 485 broadcast mentions across all Australian electronic media in
Are we there yet? Have we finally arrived at some point at which the public imagination has at last been saturated by the low-life likes of Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Who are these people? Why are we obsessed with intellectually malnourished, semi-starved, over-coiffed, hyper-indulged air heads? Why on earth does anything that they could conceivably do matter? They are like a cancer of the collective bowel.
The great pity is that only one of them is behind bars. A zoo if it has to be. Just take them away.
past 48 hours. Chinese emissions policy, by comparison, has been referred to 71 times.
Good to see the media is so obliging to the lowest common denominator. This is partly why I rarely blog nowadays (the other reason is that I'm lazy and have work to do). My American office mate, who would actually read such inane celebrity-related articles, thinks Ms Hilton got a raw deal. I say, who cares?
Overnight Australian time a young Los Angeles resident was jailed for 23 days after a series of minor driving offences. This is bigger news than China's reluctance to pursue some sort of solution to its contribution to global warming and thus save the planet.
According to Media Monitors, the incarceration of Paris Hilton has received 485 broadcast mentions across all Australian electronic media in
Are we there yet? Have we finally arrived at some point at which the public imagination has at last been saturated by the low-life likes of Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Who are these people? Why are we obsessed with intellectually malnourished, semi-starved, over-coiffed, hyper-indulged air heads? Why on earth does anything that they could conceivably do matter? They are like a cancer of the collective bowel.
The great pity is that only one of them is behind bars. A zoo if it has to be. Just take them away.
past 48 hours. Chinese emissions policy, by comparison, has been referred to 71 times.
Good to see the media is so obliging to the lowest common denominator. This is partly why I rarely blog nowadays (the other reason is that I'm lazy and have work to do). My American office mate, who would actually read such inane celebrity-related articles, thinks Ms Hilton got a raw deal. I say, who cares?
posted by Engels at 5:03 pm
7 Comments:
paris got a raw deal?????
didnt she get busted drink driving and driving without a license like, oh, like, you know, like, a half dozen times, girlfriend?
The yank *thinks* that the authorities are picking on her because she's a celebrity. Does the yank know what "regular" people get when they act equally as stupid? Probably not.
She also think following politics is akin to following sports since you following politics will have "no effect" in the end.
and you are blogging about her
oh, the ironing.
Did anyone see the comedian on the MTV awards show, which Paris rocked up too the day before she was put in jail? That was pretty funny, although I almost felt a little sad for Ms Hilton!
and you are blogging about her
I knew they'd be at least one perceptive smart-arse who would point that out...
Actually, I'm blogging about the funny Crikey piece.
I don't have a TV, Martini, so that s a no.
It'll be on youtube somewhere. She said something about to keep Paris happy while she was inprison, the guards had painted pink penis on the bars and something along the lines of chipping her teeth on them. It then panned to a shot of Paris, who didn't look impressed. Poor girl!
BAH HAHAHAHA, I can't say 'poor girl' ahbout Paris!!
There's been heaps of stupid jokes and congical (sp??) visits
i'd give paris a conjegal visit... if i could spell it...
"to boldly go, where no man, okay, a few men, oookay, like, several dozen men, have gone before...."
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