Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Media Suicide

The instances of "news that is not news" proliferate.

Family asked to leave Louisville restaurant because child is crying.

While this may be a number of things, it is not news. Not even local news. In fact, it's amazingly trivial.

Twins recover from drug overdose.


And in one of the more maddening categories, this is news, of course, because it happened to the children of someone in show biz. News by reason of "fame by association." Occurs daily.

Thug turns self in early to begin prison sentence.

This has been done to death, only because the thug (and his fellow thugs) are sports celebrities and "ethnic minorities." Not to mention that their handlers have decided that the best route to follow for Mr. Vick, since he has (to use the British term) been "grassed" and forced to plead guilty by his good friends, is to make a mad dash to attempt to rehabilitiate himself.

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