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I, too, am dismayed by the apparently total media coverage of Paris's most recent antics. Is she really worth a column in the New York Times? Does her pain and suffering merit a segment on the Evening News? But then, this is the Media according to George W. Bush, the media that glosses over the horrendous events in Irag and the Mideast, the media that fails to fully inform the American public of other happenings that do concern many of us.
It's unlikely Paris will ever do anything worthwhile with her life. The single skill she seems to have developed is that of making people look at her. Not necessarily with admiration or envy, wonder perhaps. We wonder why she thinks she's worthy of anyone's attention or concern. We wonder how the media, the once-honorable profession of journalism is now so much like tabloid journalism, it's hard to tell them apart.
Perhaps though I have misjudged Ms. Hilton. She has reduced many of us to the same moral level she occupies. Yet, as thinking humans we watch to see how this will turn out, when she will no longer hold any interest for any of us. Soon, I hope, very soon.
