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    America’s Mind Power Wasted On Worthless Celebrity Trash

America’s most succcessful novelist, and self-confessed news junkie, Stephen King cuts loose on the corporate media’s obsession with mindless celebrity crap. Americans are being treated like idiots, and are being robbed of their intellect, all the while the real stories are being missed, like :

    “…where all the money went that we poured into Iraq. It just seems to disappear.

    “And yet you get this coverage of who’s gonna get custody of Britney’s kids? Whether or not Lindsay drank at her twenty-first birthday party, and all this other shit.

    “You know, this morning, the two big stories on CNN are Kanye West’s mother, who died, apparently, after having some plastic surgery. The other big thing that’s going on is whether or not this cop [Drew Peterson] killed his… wife.

    “And meanwhile, you’ve got Pakistan in the midst of a real crisis, where these people have nuclear weapons that we helped them develop. You’ve got a guy in charge, who’s basically declared himself the military strongman and is being supported by the Bush administration, whose raison d’etre for going into Iraq was to spread democracy in the world.

    “So you’ve got these things going on, which seem to me to be very substantive, that could affect all of us, and instead, you see a lot of this back-fence gossip.

    “We’re news junkies in my house.”

    “I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

    “We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics — trying to play a serious part in the world — to a culture that’s really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don’t know who their f—— Representatives are.”

    “Britney Spears is just trailer trash. That’s all. I mean, I don’t mean to be pejorative. But you observe her behavior for the past five years and you say, “Here’s a lady who can’t take care of her kids, she can’t take care of herself, she has no retirement fund, everything that she gets runs right through her hands.” And yet, you know and I know that if you go to those sites that tell you what the most blogged-about things on the Internet are, it’s Britney, it’s Lindsay.

    “So I think it would be terrific [to have them as TIME Persons of the Year]. There would be such a scream from the American reading public, sure. But at the same time, it’s time for somebody to discuss the difference between real news and fake news.

    “…Britney is now famous for being famous. Her sales have gone down with almost every album, bigger and bigger jumps, so that nobody really cares about her music anymore. They care about the tabloid headlines and whether or not she’s wearing panties. I mean, is this an issue that the American public needs to turn its brainpower on?”

An American friend has a theory on what’s going on in his country right now. He doesn’t believe the media is dumbing down his country, he thinks it’s being dumbed up. That is, the obsessions and fixations of the not so bright are being forced up the intellectual scale, to where even once ‘hard news’ channels and current affairs shows are now including stories about celebrity trash.

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