Definitive Proof, Because I Said So!
I am Anna Nicole Smith's baby's father! Okay, America, lavish me with fame and fortune! Or just fortune, your choice. Arrange for me a talk-show circuit and a book deal I want rights to the movie and merchandising too (perhaps a bobble head so that I can match A.N.S. herself). Oh, and a cool-dude entourage, and an Escalade. I know how this gig works! Oh and that other guy? The one who's suing $10m for character defamation because it was said that there's no way he could be the father? Take that as a lesson, man. Don't tell me whose father I can and can't be! For all you know I could your father, America.
Jimmy Kimmel (in a rare case where I agreed with him) said that everyone associated with television should be ashamed of themselves. In fact, even the people that supply electricity to television should be ashamed. When TV is knocking TV on the head, perhaps it's time to take notice.
At what point does all the trivial emptiness implode on itself? Do people honestly care that much? And if they do, why are they allowed to continue to consume perfectly good oxygen? At what point do either the audience or the entertainers realise that they're propagating the biggest waste of time, money and energy in history? And who's losing sleep on the biggest unasked question of all: "How are we going to top this when Kato Kaelin dies?"
In other news, CNN said-- sorry, my bad. According to CNN, there is no other news...
Jimmy Kimmel (in a rare case where I agreed with him) said that everyone associated with television should be ashamed of themselves. In fact, even the people that supply electricity to television should be ashamed. When TV is knocking TV on the head, perhaps it's time to take notice.
At what point does all the trivial emptiness implode on itself? Do people honestly care that much? And if they do, why are they allowed to continue to consume perfectly good oxygen? At what point do either the audience or the entertainers realise that they're propagating the biggest waste of time, money and energy in history? And who's losing sleep on the biggest unasked question of all: "How are we going to top this when Kato Kaelin dies?"
In other news, CNN said-- sorry, my bad. According to CNN, there is no other news...
2 Comments:
I was in Seattle recently and at a drug store that had a magazine rack that no less than NINE magazines with Anna Nicole Smith's face on it! I thought somewhere in a fancy hotel room, holding her overly manicured pooch, Paris Hilton is holding her hands up, looking to heaven, and saying in a happy voice, "Thank you God!" And, in the White House, Karl Rove must have been saying to himself, "Just the distraction we needed!"
Danny Bonaduce, being interviewed on CNN, said the only rational thing. He said that nobody's thinking about Anna's baby and the psychological damage to this kid.
Everything about this shows, once again, sloppy journalism. I saw an interview with her bodyguard that was conducted by apparently TWO different interviewee's, that is the same footage showing two different interviewers.
Why do they think we care about this stuff?
By the way, I found you through The Kindlings Muse website. I'm Adam, from California.
Hi Adam! I greatly appreciate that there are other people who share my opinion on the utter ridiculousness of this. Most people seem to just shrug it off the story as a trivial. But I'm outraged!
Without a doubt this child's life is destroyed before it even really starts. Both the people who watch transfixed, and the people who shrug at it, are complicit. The one story that media can't ask is "What's the media's role in the death of A.N.S.?" That's too heavy a burden for the lightweight 'news' we're drowning in.
And further, I wonder if the audience will ever question its own role...
ps I love Kindling's Muse -- it forces me to ask hard questions of all my unasked answers.
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