What happened in the last few years? Seriously, so much crap on the tele, with the news being the worst. I just can't stand CNN anymore. Apparently, the only way CNN can compete with Fox News is to report the going-ons with celebs. Punditry and analysis (or what little they had to begin with) has gone out the window in favor of discussing what body part Britney Spears is exposing today.
I mean, who really cares? It's not like there's a shortage of real news out there, both domestically and abroad. Instead, let's make way for pictures of Brad Pitt's new kid and what George Clooney is up to. There's such a demand for celebrity news that they're really starting to scrape at the bottom of the barrel. For instance, I remember seeing on the front page of CNN a story about Brendan Fraser breaking up with his wife. Brendan Fraser? What is this, 1998? It's not like he WAS an A-lister. He NEVER was an A-lister. Ever.
Who knows why this stuff has suddenly burgeoned in popularity. Maybe Americans are so interested in other people's problems because they want to escape their own. This is plausible given how south things are going in this country. Regardless of the reasoning, all this tabloid stuff has no right being on the news. Leave it for TMZ.com and Perez Hilton. Hell, if Fox News is unabashedly conservative then why doesn't CNN become an unabashedly liberal station? Fight fire with fire.
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