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Saturday, June 9, 2007 01:15 AM

Get What You Pay For

"Let's just pray that those bad prison sheets scratch her tender white ass enough to get her out of our faces for good. Because we certainly didn't ask for this, either. No matter how the talking heads and pundits have tried to convince us that Paris is a reflection of our shallowness and stupidity as a culture, most of us have never wanted her to be a symbol of anything."

Actually, Paris sells...page hits, magazines, etc. When people stop buying, that's when she'll fade. We buy what the media feeds us. People say they don't want war in Iraq, but they'd rather watch American Idol than protest in the streets. You can blame the media for making us stupid sheeple who "pay for Paris," but the fact is we get exactly what we "want": trendy glammer that we then go buy on the cheap at Walmart. And then we all say that we want to stop global warming.

Stop needless consumption, I say. Starting with Paris Hilton. The only way to change the media is to show the media we'd like to be fed a different diet.

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