Breaking news: Some blonde died a day or two ago.

Contrary to reports in the US media, only unless you live in a very, very small world, it is not the #1 news story around the world.

The Japanese media does the same thing–blows trivial, sensational news out of proportion when there are far more pressing issues the public should be aware of. Like, for example, how Bush is sending more troops to Iraq quite possibly because he really wants to send them into Iran.

Rich Pav

Richard has been living in Japan since 1990 with his wife and two teenage sons, Tony and Andy.

5 thoughts to “Breaking news: Some blonde died a day or two ago.”

  1. Due to living in the United States, everyday the question strikes me: can people really be this dumb?

    National news covered the blonde’s death for over twelve hours straight, live.

    I hope when Paris Hilton dies they devote 48 hours of media coverage. Honestly, I’d die happy…

  2. Its ridiculous. Makes me sick to turn on the tv and see nothing but a dead blond plastered on every single channel, while extremely important events and news that actually matter go ignored.

    They don’t run it for the hell of it, they run it because it sells. For every person who finds it ridiculous, theres sadly another 100 who’s eyeballs are dead-fucking glued to the television, completely memorized.

  3. What’re you talking about? Such a hard-working, decent, respectable pillar of the community deserves… hold on a minute…

    Thankfully the UK is only devoting a few minutes per news report to her, but that’s way too much.
    Instead we’ve had half of each evening’s news devoted to how much problems 1 inch of snow has caused. Oh. My. God.

  4. You know what, though? For all of the celebrity news that gets reported, a teenaged mother, turned stripper, turned PMOY, turned celeb, turned young multi-millionaire widow, turned plaintiff in a Supreme Court case, turned bereaved mother under suspicious circumstances, turned suspicious corpse is one hell of a story. Don’t think of it as news, think of it as beating the hell out of most what else is on TV.

    Oh and Rich, whatever American networks decide is big news is the biggest news in the world. You can fight it, but, face it, any B-list celeb who falls down the stairs is more important than any war anywhere. And America is the center of the world, so what happens there is supreme.

    1. She’s been self-destructing for the past decade or so. With someone like that, a permature death is a foregone conclusion. She’s not even leaving behind a cultural legacy or some unreleased recordings. She didn’t even die on a slow news day.

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