Brangelina, TomKat on list of most-hated words
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Maybe it's time to treat celebrity culture and its omnipresent mags as kiddie porn and mete out fines for possession. It is one of the most destructive movements alive in the western world today. The scurrilous business has even co-opted major tv network news reports.
I think McLuhan once said that celebrity has become news and the rest is just entertainment. I think he was right. Tsunamis, hurricanes, sinking ferries, etc. are entertainment and "Tomkat" and Brangelina" are news.Just look at news hours, for example; actual natural events like weather and articles of events each take up so little time each and of themselves but then there's this big production on the end of it called "sports". Like "3 people were killed in an apartment fire today. 27 were left homeless", (a few more of those types of short bits, then there's the "todays weather is such-and-such". "Tomorrow's weather is of this pattern" and a small scattering of various different areas' weather, then 10 or 15 straight minutes of scores, trades, commission rulings, etc. complete with vidclips. :roll:
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Filliam H. Muffman
my way to solve the paparazzi problem, make it illegal to sell photos taken without the consent of those within them. You can still take them, you can still print them. But everyone can use them and no money can change hands.
Then you would really have to think if taking photos of Ms. Annistons dumpster is worth it.
my way to solve the paparazzi problem, make it illegal to sell photos taken without the consent of those within them. You can still take them, you can still print them. But everyone can use them and no money can change hands.
Then you would really have to think if taking photos of Ms. Annistons dumpster is worth it.
Gilbert, you could be right. And then major network execs could be wrong. It is they who have directed their news staff to include this garbage in newscasts. It's like ordering your daughter to sleep with a guest with HIV. Doesn't make a wit of sense, shows not a mote of personal responsibility and slavishly poisons the future.
That's the picture I have., yup.
Hey, I just noticed I'm "almost an ubergod", so people don't have to look at me anymore.
Better change my avatar now.
Hey, I just noticed I'm "almost an ubergod", so people don't have to look at me anymore.
Better change my avatar now.