3/02/2007

The last time I saw Paris

The Associated Press didn't cover Paris Hilton for an entire week.

What do they want, a medal? From the article:

"No, editors just wanted to see what would happen if we didn't cover this media phenomenon, this creature of the Internet gossip age, for a full week. After that, we'd take it day by day. Would anyone care? Would anyone notice? And would that tell us something interesting?"

Journalism is not "giving the people what they want," an offensive phrase so commonly heard when news producers are defending their inane broadcasts. It's a public service.

1 comment:

Jeff Hudecek said...

CNN disagrees! Now I'm gonna go watch a video of a political debate at a nudist colony that they have on their website (no joke).