Celebrity News is for Suckas

Hey, is it just me, or does everyone else despise celebrity "news" programs/magazines? I absolutely hate hate HATE them so much. There is no reason why this should be lumped together with legitimate news. I was watching the local news the other day, which typically sucks pretty hard unless you are interested in what crimes occurred in your immediate area, seeing as how that's all they ever cover. However, as I was watching it, they did a story on Britney Spears marriage. Now, I'm sorry. Britney Spears is from somewhere down south, the marriage happened in Las Vegas, and she probably lives out in California. What, exactly, made her local news? Does she have a cousin in the D.C. area? Because if she does, I didn't hear a thing about him or her. And all those magazines like People and Us and Good Housekeeping (that one was a stretch, but it's another magazine I don't like very much) do their damnedest to legitimize all of the triviality that is a celebrity's life on a day-to-day basis. Just because you publish pictures of Harrison Ford eating at some posh restaurant in SoHo in a "legitimate news source", that doesn't make it legitimate news. It makes it inane bullshit that somehow made it into a magazine rife with more inane bullshit. This morning, on the car ride in, they did celebrity news, and my mom insisted we listen. I've never heard people talk more excitedly about anything in my life than the three or four people on the morning show did when they discussed Paris Hilton and Nick Carter's surprise Bahamas trip. How boring must your own life be for this kind of literature to really excite your senses? And how sheltered from the real world can you possibly hope to be? While the people who watch these shows know all the ins and outs of every "celebrity" to ever come from a reality show's life, they probably couldn't tell you a thing about what's going on in the real world. I guess that's my biggest problem with this type of news, is that it's the fluff that threatens to overtake real journalism in the next few years. Pretty soon no one will care when we go to war, or when a president is doing evil things, or when civil liberties are being taken away, so long as they know what book Oprah is reading that week. It's a sad state of affairs, but it's the way it is. Learn to live with it, or move to Russia, you damn Commie bastard.