Friday, June 15, 2007

Paris has been shanked


I’d read that story. Front page news should not report on sketchy Inquirer fodder. On a day the heiress—that twerp—decides to pout, the more meaningful G8 meetings get page 8. I mean I should be the one screaming “this isn’t fair.”

Let’s get this ironed out first: Paris did not deserve jail. Her status and actions seemed to vault her there along with her tardiness to her drunken driving/suspended licensed court date. Tax payers paid $1,000 per day for Paris to sulk and fret behind penis bars. Is this really vengeance? It’s as if she’d remained in prison for her allotted 21 days, we’d have forgiven her. Lord, Paris deserves a second chance!

She deserves to be publicly flogged. No, Malaysia, that’s too easy. She deserves to be publicly rapped by L.A.’s infamous skid row dwellers. That reminds me, ahem, FOX, I’ve got a great TV show pitch? While she parades up and down the lush green boulevards of posh Los Angeles with crowds stampeding behind her circus, bulbs and craziness do not stir upon the rampant ugliness of homelessness inside L.A.’s downtown.

E! News Daily perpetuates these ongoing sagas, and well, that’s what E! News makes these blip stories into, sagas. Numerous reports surfaced after the first night on TMZ.com claiming Paris was not sleeping, was cold and uneasy. Is this a revelation? She and Tinkerbelle had not seen a mirror for more than 3 hours! The ensuing medical situation debacle created even more nonsense. E! News Daily even had Paris’ aunt for an exclusive interview. What now, she a broke a tooth?

My theory has always been: ignore. The power of looking away is statistically proven to end ego trips. If I’m making silly jokes with friends and they stop laughing, I soon realize I need to quit. The problem is clear: misjudgment. The media’s correlation between anything Paris and say, a spike in watching shows like E! News Daily, is haywire. Do people Google Paris after they’ve heard another story? Do they watch “to see what Paris said about her returning relationship with Nicole” as Ryan Seacrest leads on? Do these photos get a great interest in return? No. The reason why news media seem to think so is because they make a living off of these supposed stories. Plus they flood the public eye with these starlets so much so it’s hard to analyze whether or not steamy relationships, break-ups even matter to a star’s career. Sadly, Paris’ or Britney’s face on every channel and magazine sells more than the Social Security crisis. I don’t want to see Grandma Jenkins in leggings! Paris’ stock does not rise, it drops yet the media continues to create Simple Life 5—it is TV, people will watch; they watch National Bingo Night for chrissakes!

Bad press equals good press. That’s what Paris’ publicist subscribes to. Any exposure, a breast, a throwing of a paparazzo’s camera or a toy for tots ribbon cutting event is news worthy. The more attention, and despite the grief, that is given to stars such as Paris, the more revenue generated by both the media and team Paris; E! gets paid and Paris’ attention craze is met. What we get is the best: wasted thought, breath and energy. We got pulled in and used. Paris’ coy smile is etched into our memory; we can’t possibly look away.

I don’t know about you but I know where I was when Paris was in jail: in front of the tube watching E!, passing up pissing until they return from commercials so I could stay in the know on Parisgate.

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