Headliners
We’ve sunken as a society to a place I don’t wanna go when the nightly news has a celebrity story in their headlines seven days a week.
We don’t care that Lindsay made court a three-ring-circus (though our tax dollars did pickup the tab). Nor, that her parents are Creeps of the Year. That Paris was grabbing for her lip gloss and has no idea who the cocaine belongs to or where it came from. Or that Mel crashed his fancy, mid-life-crisis sports car. We don’t cheer for Team Jen or Team Angelina (Really? People are still putting them on tabloid covers almost a decade later? Really?). What RPat and what’s her name are, or aren’t up to.
We do, however, care about the Gulf, unemployment, education, health care and the future of this seemingly dysfunctional country.
It’s a sad day in journalism when ratings are chosen over reporting. And it’s an equally sad day when Americans turn the channel from newsworthy stories to another station that covers who was voted off Dancing with the Stars.
Looks like onward and upward is gonna be a big mountain to climb.
