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Enough Media Coverage of Paris Hilton

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Mark Giardina

I could not believe my eyes when I turned on MSNBC's "Hardball" program to find Chris Matthews interviewing Al Sharpton about Paris Hilton returning to jail. Who gives a flying %&#@!

The same sick feeling came over me when ABC's Charlie Gibson also featured a story about Hilton.

Come on folks, Paris Hilton is nothing but some rich kid. She isn't worth all of the so-called news networks dedicating one second of time to her. Find some real news please and let Entertainment Tonight cover Hilton. Better yet nobody covers Hilton and maybe she will just fade away. (I can only wish)
 
I got tired of listening about Anna Nicole Smith's death, her boyfriends, her infant daughter, and then Britney Spears, and now Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan the minute the newscasters started the ball rolling. All you hear and see on CNN Headline News (what a joke) is Nancy Grace ALL THE TIME talking about all of them. And it is not just cable networks that are covering it but the gossip shows like The Insider, Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, and EXTRA are gobbling those stories up like popcorn.

But what do you expect? ::)
 
Braves2005 said:
I got tired of listening about Anna Nicole Smith's death, her boyfriends, her infant daughter, and then Britney Spears, and now Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan the minute the newscasters started the ball rolling. All you hear and see on CNN Headline News (what a joke) is Nancy Grace ALL THE TIME talking about all of them. And it is not just cable networks that are covering it but the gossip shows like The Insider, Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, and EXTRA are gobbling those stories up like popcorn.

But what do you expect? ::)
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This is all startling to me as well. There used to be "real news" and then "The National Enquirer". It's all blurring together now isn't it?
 
The fault doesn't lie entirely with the media outlets. Of course they have the choice of what to broadcast, but they are also making the decision on the basis of what the viewers want to see. It is partly the fault of the masses that want to know about this crap. If they didn't demand that garbage, us Radio-Info folks (who have high expectations from our television sets) wouldn't have to watch it.
 
Actually, about 1 PM EDT, they interupted coverage of the Paris Hilton debacle to carry the Pentagon news conference about the firing of Gen. Peter Pace come September. No split-screens, the full screens of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox Noise were dedicated to the story. I thought I heard a "Hallejulah" chorus in the air.

Five minutes later, they were all back to Parisgate. So much for that miracle.
 
Braves2005 said:
I got tired of listening about Anna Nicole Smith's death, <snip>
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Death? What are you talking about? I just saw her working at the general store in Crown King, Arizona!

Ooops!! I wasn't supposed to tell - but that'll be just between you and me!
 
Did anybody see Fox News yesterday afternoon? They had helicopter coverage of Paris Hilton being transported from to court room to the jail. It was like OJ Simpson!
 
M.J. said:
The fault doesn't lie entirely with the media outlets. Of course they have the choice of what to broadcast, but they are also making the decision on the basis of what the viewers want to see. It is partly the fault of the masses that want to know about this crap. If they didn't demand that garbage, us Radio-Info folks (who have high expectations from our television sets) wouldn't have to watch it.
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Doesnt come as a surprise to me. It is sad that so many people care more about what the celebrities are doing or did than issues they should be more concerned about. Gas prices at $3+ a gallon? Iraq? Crime on the increase in many places? Yet it seems more people are more concerned about Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole, Bob Barker, Rosie O'Donnell, etc...than the things that should matter. Maybe its their way of "escape". So much bad news out there that they turn to what the celebrities are doing as their way of not wanting to "think" about the bad things in their lives whether its the war in Iraq or if a local factory in their hometown is closing up shop putting thousands out of work. But sooner or later people will get the message and start being more concerned about the things that should matter rather than worry about people who they would never meet. Hopefully most people will anyway.
 
I could not believe this. In one of the MSNBC articles, paris "supposedly" said that she didn't realize that her sentence would cause so much media publicity and should focus on something else like the war in Iraq. I thought that was great, then I had the thought that it was her publicist who said that. On Conan O'Brien, they did a parody of MSNBC of other news stories of the day that got regulated to the ticker scroll, like zombies attacking the White House, Jesus coming back for the rapture, Japan sunk to the bottom of the Pacific, etc.
 
As if Paris Hilton thought her sentence would go UN-noticed. She knows exactly what she's doing (or her handlers know, at least), so now comes the book and once she's out of jail, the endless rounds on the talk shows.

All Paris All the Time is to be expected on Fox, MSNBC, et al--but shame on CBS, NBC, and ABC for keeping Paris in the headlines. It's not even news--it's just fodder for the Fox fluff mill.
 
Paris Hilton is the result of what happens when TV went from reporting 'real news' to integrating entertainment as part of their program. Who is this broad anyways? What has she done to deserve this attention, besides the fact her daddy is rich? I could care less about Hilton, Lindsey Lohan and the rest of these rich little drunken cocaine snorting no talent brats. Put them on the covers of the supermarket rag sheets where they belong, but for crying-out-loud get them off from network newscasts.
 
Whether you like Paris Hilton or not, does anybody think that Sheppard Smith's on air behavior on Friday was a bit unprofessional the way he was her mimicking her screaming out in court? Again whether you like her or not, his job was to sit there and report what was going on, not make a public spectacle out of himself imho
 
The Voice of Reason said:
Paris Hilton is the result of what happens when TV went from reporting 'real news' to integrating entertainment as part of their program. Who is this broad anyways?
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To be honest, I never even heard of Paris Hilton until a few years ago -- when I started getting spam, selling the illicit video that undeservedly put her on the map.

And to this day, I do not care about her at all.

I didn't even know about the media circus until flipping through the channels later that evening -- I usually get all my news in the papers, and ignore the tabloids.
 
I agree with everyone on this thread. But as a broadcast college professor reminded us over and over again, broadcasting is a business. You supply what's demanded, and if the audience is enthralled with a rich kid going to jail, and her crying out for her mom, then the broadcast networks are going to feed it to the audience.

I mean, let's face it, if most people had a choice between watching a Presidential cabinet meeting or a rich kid screaming in court over her having to go to jail, most are going to tune in to the latter. It's like reading a captivating book.

When I worked radio news 20 years ago, we covered the County Commission and City Council meetings, week after week. Do you hear that on the local radio news anymore... not for even a half-second. At least not in the market where I live. In contrast, if someone pulled a gun at one of those meetings, the media would be all over that story like white on rice.
 
RE: Shepherd Smith's mimicking PH on the air. You have to forgive Shepherd's conduct--he knows not what he does...regarding PH or anything else He and his producers got together and thought it would be a cute bit. Instead it turned out to be yet another Fox Failure.
 
radionative said:
I agree with everyone on this thread. But as a broadcast college professor reminded us over and over again, broadcasting is a business. You supply what's demanded, and if the audience is enthralled with a rich kid going to jail, and her crying out for her mom, then the broadcast networks are going to feed it to the audience.
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That's why I'm thankful to live in Canada. The CBC doesn't act like a business and they provide real news, and they set the journalistic standard for CTV (and to a lesser extent, Global) who have to keep up in the ratings.
 
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