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This is News?
May. 4th, 2005 02:19 pmRight. I have always been unappologetic in my fondness for the USA's greatest kareoke night, American Idol. I love the drek. I *do* enjoy watching the train-wrecks of the auditions and I'm not sorry for it. I pick favourites, I get on the phone with my sister and bitch for an hour when certain people manage to stay on the show vs. others. However this current 'hoo-ha' over a suspected affair between Paula Abdul and Corey Clark. Note the word the news is useing to try and make this more titilating - two unattached adults usually have a relationship, unless we want to hint at le scandal~! This is news? Did I miss yet another memo?
The irony of this is that I find myself fending off people trying to engage in salicious gossip with me on the subject in exactly the same way I did when allegations of Clinton and Lewisinsky started. It doesn't matter what I may think - it's none of my business & not my life. And since I don't want people poking their noses into my personal 'affairs', I try to set the example by not poking my nose into theirs. I;m not a saint, I read headlines and laugh in the supermarket lines just as much as the next person. But I also seem to be able to put it in contex, and contex in this situation does not warrent the head of all news leads. ABC - bitter much? Corey Clark has little to no credibility frankly, and is trying to sell a book (it would seem nobody offered him any record deals, so he needs cash somehow. Clearly getting a job has not been considered). And while Jose Canseco proved himself to be as much of a self-centered fink as ever in his money quest tell-all, I would at least give some credibility to the suggestion that the noise raised over steroids is ultimately a benefit to a lot of people on many levels. The benefit of a 'scandal' at AI? Zero. Seriously.
If ABC wants to run a gossip mag, more power to them. But between CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, even the NYTimes giving this all the airtime and face time they have? Please. Didn't Iraq's newly elected government just take formal power, or did you miss that?
The irony of this is that I find myself fending off people trying to engage in salicious gossip with me on the subject in exactly the same way I did when allegations of Clinton and Lewisinsky started. It doesn't matter what I may think - it's none of my business & not my life. And since I don't want people poking their noses into my personal 'affairs', I try to set the example by not poking my nose into theirs. I;m not a saint, I read headlines and laugh in the supermarket lines just as much as the next person. But I also seem to be able to put it in contex, and contex in this situation does not warrent the head of all news leads. ABC - bitter much? Corey Clark has little to no credibility frankly, and is trying to sell a book (it would seem nobody offered him any record deals, so he needs cash somehow. Clearly getting a job has not been considered). And while Jose Canseco proved himself to be as much of a self-centered fink as ever in his money quest tell-all, I would at least give some credibility to the suggestion that the noise raised over steroids is ultimately a benefit to a lot of people on many levels. The benefit of a 'scandal' at AI? Zero. Seriously.
If ABC wants to run a gossip mag, more power to them. But between CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, even the NYTimes giving this all the airtime and face time they have? Please. Didn't Iraq's newly elected government just take formal power, or did you miss that?
