Posted on 12/07/2002 1:17:03 PM PST by hoosierskypilot
It gives me great pleasure to report that the media worship of celebrities has not sunk to an all-time low.
It does not give me great pleasure to report the reason, which is that the media worship of celebrities long ago reached its nadir and has not in the interim given the slightest indication of ascent.
As an arbitrary starting point---and one could go back a century earlier if one chose---consider Barbara Walters’s 1999 interview with Monica Lewinsky. Consider Walters’s 1997 interview with Marv Albert. Consider Diane Sawyer’s 1996 interview with Robert Downey, Jr. Consider Sawyer’s 1995 interview with Michael Jackson.
And now consider Sawyer’s latest addition to the canon, her interview Wednesday night on the ABC News program Primetime with drug addict and part-time singer Whitney Houston. The pointlessness of the exercise is not worth space in this column.
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Actually, the rest of the article points out that journalists, the whores that they are, pander to an American audience. An American audience, I might add, that is functionally illiterate and hasn't had an original thought since birth.
pMSNBC? Larry King? Geraldo? (Actually, the last is his own hero, but that's another problem...)
Of course, there are the Blathers, the Raines, the Chris Matthews, ...
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