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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Paris has grown up to be what she was encouraged to be. She understood that female sexuality and vapidity what what this culture wants to eat, and she served herself up...
more visibly than many, but scarcely more outrageously than our 11-year-olds who think, in middle school, that giving boys blow jobs is a requirement kind of like gym class.
I am far more revolted by the media who feed this appetite, this article not excepted.
She didn't need the money. She is anorexic and poorly educated. One day she will be like an aging porn star who anguishes alone, because nobody's interested.
I wish Salon and every other media would stop hiding behind the thin curtain of "news" and show character and leadership.
Every time Keith Olberman sneers at these half-dead, witless young Hollywood women, I am terribly disappointed but not surprised. From Salon, I keep hoping for more evolved thinking. But an article that pours more acid on her while she clearly has no sense of self (or self-protection) is just a different kind of mean.
But then...there's Broadsheet, which really does explain all of this, if only the editors would think it all the way through.
You don't have to be a humorless prude to report on culture in a way that would change it for the better. You don't have to be snide, you don't have to be angry, you just need a soupcon of compassion...and enough curiosity to posit alternative ways of looking at the things that happen.
One can only hope and pray that we can all be relieved of Paris Hilton and her antics in life.
...why the letters section here often resembles a lynch mob.
What really happened with Paris Hilton? Nothing. Certainly nothing worth writing about, and yet Salon writes this:
"Let's just pray that those bad prison sheets scratch her tender white ass enough to get her out of our faces for good."
This sounds awfully familiar.
If you don't want Paris Hilton in your face, it's possible to avoid that. If more people did, it would probably help her far more than any editorial snark ever will. Mostly what the publicity has done is encourage her to develop in a truly destructive way. Salon has just added to that publicity, and in a way that reminds me of nothing so much as Ben Dover's tirades. Why? What actual good does this do?
None whatsoever. It's just fun to savage the fallen.
Heather and Rebecca:
I won't waste my time reading this. But I do expect Salon to ignore this empty headed woman and all that she represents. Please! we have enough serious issues to cope with and have no time reading about the stupid idle rich. You provide the oxygen.
I wonder if she's going to hang herself in prison. Don't get all huffy for me wondering; you know you are, too.
For the sake of arguement, forget for a moment that the perp is Paris Hilton and look at the facts of the case. Here's a defendant who blew a .08. In California, that's the bottom line for DUI. But the defendant gets a "wet reckless" instead. Probably had a damned good lawyer. Part of the punishment for wet reckless (also for DUI) is attendance at a series of classes on drinking and driving (ususlly once a week for 10 or 12 weeks).
This perp blew off the classes altogether. Then this perp was busted twice (or was it thrice?) for driving on a suspended license. Either of those could have resulted in immediate revocation of probation and incarceration.
So here's a question for the perp defenders: how many times can a perp dis the law before a judge gets pissed?
So lets at least be straight on the facts of this case. This perp is NOT in the slam for wet reckless. She's doing time because she disregarded the terms of her probation, THREE TIMES!!!
You can dis Nicole Richie without consequence. You can dis Lindsay Lohan without consequence. You can dis Britney Spears without consequence. But you can't dis the law three times and expect a judge not to toss your ass in the slam for a pretty nice little stretch.
And please, lets quit using the term "prison." There is a huge difference between county jail and prison.
Why does this article exist? I would totally understand if Salon wanted to use this pathetic episode to feature a well-researched article about how our nation's rich get a different form of justice from the poor. But another article complaining about how this person won't go away?
If Salon would quit publishing articles about this stupid little girl then all of us who have ponied up our premium fees could enjoy this site with neither the clutter of viewing ads nor the clutter of pointless articles about celebrity "culture." I can read CNN for free--so either stop this nonsense or give me back my premium fee.
As a citizen of the United Kingdom, I hesitate to criticise.
O.K I've hesiteted enough.
You, collectively, have the attention span of a goldfish. You elected Bush, he lied, you elected him again, he lied. You are dying in your thosands, and you are murdering others in their tens of thousands, to enritch the liar you elected president.
So now Paris Hilton is upset that she has been convicted, so she stamps her feet, and screams, and threatens to be sick, and she is released. Because she has lots of money.
But the judge, obviosly one that hasn't been purged, said "No".
I have one question. Did anybody notice if she was wearing the ankle bracelet when she embarked on her journey back to court?
I would bet that she was not. She had bought her freedom. Or so she thought.
It almost feels like the Apocalypse or something.
Maybe this is how the human race will end -- in a giant orgy of murderous group hate.
It condemns someone like Paris, but writes and writes and writes about her, all the while bemoaning her media omnipresence. She isn't everywhere. She doesn't have to grad anyone's attention. We don't have to look, and Salon doesn't have to write about it. There's no news in this story, and no entertainment. Do the writers and editors of Salon not realize they have a choice?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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