Comments on: Too Much (Trivial) Information

By: PopArtDiva

PopArtDiva — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:33:24 +0000

I’m so there with you on this – even had my own little rant on what passes for news nowadays!

Instead of real news we get gossip and trivia on media created celebs and publicity savvy politicos.

Like I said in my post, “America, you get the news you deserve”.

If we stopped buying these rags, turned the channel and clicked away from these tabloid sites they would eventually go away. Then maybe we would get real news like we did when we had anchors like Walter Cronkite.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:28:43 +0000

Why?! Why is it that whenever I see one of these covers I want to read it? Then when I visit a friend and read her magazine, I inevitably feel soiled. I want to get that time back so I can do something better with it!

By: Breon

Breon — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:33:20 +0000

So in agreement. So pained that there is so much of this stuff out there just shrieking at us (and at our daughters) to care about all this inessential trivia in the lives of others. Of course, in the case of Sarah Palin–I confess, I just want more dirt to flow.

By: CRobin

CRobin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:23:22 +0000

Palin’s story is custom made for the gossip rags. But the number of publications that accost anyone who is not agoraphobic is not to be believed! And what about the mean-spirited, snarky websites who tear actors (especially women) apart. Since actresses already are under such scrutiny, it’s takes a brave woman or a masochist to go that route. It’s a wonder we have any decent young actresses at all these days.

By: cfinhollywood

cfinhollywood — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:04:06 +0000

“When did we elevate nobodies to the level of somebodies?”

Let’s ask Sarah Palin!

I didn’t know the part about her trying to ban “Catcher in the Rye.” I fear Kafka took over long ago and we just didn’t notice.

By: dearpru

dearpru — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:29:55 +0000

Thank you, Rosemary. Sarah Palin is tailor-made for the tabloid-age, where manufactured personalities and good teeth trump experience, intelligence and reality. Makes me wanna barf.

If McCain somehow gains the White House (by hook, but most likely by crook), we can look forward to seeing Palin’s glossy smile and wraparound eyeliner mocking us at every checkout counter in the land.

I’m attaching the must-read Gloria Steinem’s Sept. 4th OP-ED piece that you sent to me (thanks, BTW):

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,7915118.story

By: rosemary

rosemary — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:48:01 +0000

Rest assured. It’s not just you. The media, including Fox News has lowered the bar and Americans have become so stupid that a woman like Sarah Palin can squeak by because she “creates a buzz.” Her 17 year old daughter’s pregnancy is much less a problem than the fact that as Mayor of Wasalia she attempted to ban books like “Catcher in the Rye” from the library because they use “inappropriate language.” The fact that our nation is split in half AGAIN, only underscores how scary it has become in this country. Americans have become as trivial as the media they read and our leadership simply takes advantage of it.