In Chin Deep

We all know the people that live in Hollyweird are a little off kilter to say the least.  Their apparent knowledge of politics, the environment, healthcare, and any other social cause you can think of has clearly shown us just how stupid they can be.  All you need to do is go near a group of women by the mini-fridge in the break room at the office to hear about the latest news.  News of course being that Jen Anniston and John Mayer broke up yet again.  Or Brangolina are adopting yet another kid to be scooped away and thrown into a world they will never understand.  Now the truly sad part is that this is what these people consider news.  Ask them about the recent market drops and they stare at you with a dumbstruck look on their face.  Ask if they know about the latest bailouts and they’ll say is that some new band.  Now before you smack them upside their head, take a minute to think why they consider this news.  If you, like I often am, are too lazy to look into it, have no fear, I have done some research for you.  Every article sited was found on the main page of a news site no lower than halfway down.  This being the general area that most people see when they first open a page. 

Now my first piece of evidence is a multi-tiered item.  It shows not only how sad the “news” has become, but also how pathetic the people they build up are too.  Now like many, I enjoy going to fark.com to get a funny take on the news.  Of course, they do have a lot real news on there, but sometimes they slip in some pointless stories just for shits and giggles.  But one of the stories, while amusing, just annoyed me that it was even considered news.  Apparently the star of the movie Twilight does not believe in washing his hair.  He goes on the talk about how dirty his apartment is and why should it matter, it’s just there for sleep. Now while the fact that someone considers this ok on its own is disgusting.  What makes it worse is that he is a person women fawn over and some men long to be like and so is considered news.  Take a fucking bath you disgusting bastard, and while you’re at, enjoy your 10 minutes of fame.  After these movies you’ll be hoping to do casting couch scenes and begging not to be shot in the eye for the money shot. 

This next example goes to show that people would rather know that some no talent hack was kicked off a show rather than what their government is doing or what else is happening in our world.  On Thursday night, I found on three different news sites the latest person to be kicked off American idol.  Now Fox News I would expect, simply because the show is on Fox.  Unfortunately though, CNN had it on their main page, and MSNBC had it on theirs too.  Of course, more bailout money was being considered, along with the Chinese discussing moving the world monetary unit from the dollar to possibly the Euro or some other form.  But no, Thursday, one of the biggest stories was “Idol’ sends oil roughneck Michael Sarver home”  Once again, America shows why we have become a nation full of unaware, dim witted morons

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Now these next few examples, I will admit, I enjoyed reading each one.  As I tend to read a lot of news, I scroll through the sites and more than likely would have found them and read them anyway.  But sticking to our problem at hand, they were still considered main page news.  Apparently Bob Barker has a memoir coming out.  Understandably, he appeared on a recent taping of the show to promote it.  Yahoo news found this to be so important that they not only had it featured at the top part of their news page, but they also included a picture to draw your attention.  Mixed around this must read information was less important things such as the flooding in the midwest and $150 million will buy you Aaron Spellings home.  Some dead guys home and Bob Barker pushing a book is now considered mainstream news.

Now this next one I have to admit I enjoyed.  As a guilty pleasure, I have enjoyed watching the show Top Chef.  Yes, I know it’s cheesy but you get to see some good food and one of the judges is hot.  Padma Lakshmi has been on that show from the first season as one of three judges.  Beyond the show, I have no clue what she did before or does currently.  Honestly it doesn’t mean shit to me as it is her life ad I don’t need to know all about her latest adventures.  However, Fox News in their infinite wisdom and brilliance to attract readers thought that her new commercial was newsworthy.  Not even half way down the main page was a headline that would make most any man stop and click on, “Padma Lakshmi’s Does Food Porn.”  Now this headline alone would make me want to click and read more about this very important development, but they went one step better.  They included a picture on the main page to entice you even further.  Now once I click on the link, I am brought to a page with minimal writing, but a great set of photos from her new Hardee’s commercial.  That’s right, the “Breaking News” was that she did a new hot Hardee’s commercial.  Now while I find this entertaining, in no way should this be part of the main list of news of the day.  Of course, for your perusing pleasure I have included a link to this very well done piece of photojournalism.  Padma Lakshmi is fucking hot

Now this last bit of news was just another reason why CNN is no longer a real news site or news channel.  In an attempt to talk about the current financial problems of the country, this next piece is just awesome.  In an effort to draw people in, CNN did a report on a mom that has decided to bare more than her soul to get extra money.  After her day care business closed, she decided to go from watching kids to being watched by men, although couples always welcomed, at a local strip club.  Now my first issue with this is that there is no actual article to read, even if it’s just a paragraph.  Society has become so pathetic now they can’t even read news, they have to watch it.  Secondly, is there any more type of cheap and easy type of news piece than to simply make it about strippers.  Of course, with our great society, not only is this a part of the top  news stories on the main page, but it is also the most viewed report on the site.  Now I know there are human interests stories that the various news sources like to put out.  But come on, breaking news is not  “Out of work mom tries stripping”  Now while I of course was drawn to this, it does not belong on the top of your home page as breaking news.  Now before I continue, as with the previous news story, I have included a link to this wonderfully heart warming story.  Stripper moms

As I went surfing through various news sites, sadly I could not find one major U.S. News site that did not include some inane stories on their homepage as a part of their breaking news.  Some had stories about strippers, others talked of food porn.  Others talked about pointless crappy tv results like they were determining the direction of the country.  Has society become that pathetic now that for us to look at news we need useless crap thrown in too?  Sadly I believe the answer is yes.  So while we continue to crumble into a group of idiots completely ignorant to anything happening around us, I’m gonna go look for more stripper mom stories.

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