Have you no shame? Have you lost all ability to distinguish between real news, propaganda, and tabloid sensationalism? Don't they teach the difference at any of the universities any more?
Nothing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt do is news, not which baby they adopt nor from which country they adopt it. They could adopt a whole country and it would still not be news.
Nothing Britney Spears does is news anymore for anyone. Even the 12 year-olds have moved on. There's no one left who cares except drag queens. The girl showed her hoo-hoo to tabloid photographers. All of those grown men who were drooling over her catholic school girl outfit for years finally got their coup de gras. There's nothing left to see here. That's one reason she's no longer news. Here's the other...
She didn't even have the sense to get paid for it. This indicates a serious deficit of intellect. No one is calling her retarded (excuse me, developmentally challenged or whatever they're calling it these days) but the child is clearly not right. Just because she can speak clearly, has the use of all of her limbs, and doesn't drool does not mean that her celebrity status should make her fair game. You wouldn't do this to anyone in the Special Olympics. Don't do it to her.
Barrack and Michelle's fist-bump was not news. It was a slow news day so you just picked something cute. I get it. But you shouldn't take for granted that the rest of the American public will get it. Look what happened with that New Yorker cover. From now on when you run stories like that you should start it with, "We know this is not news, but...." Or maybe "Here's something cute for you." I don't care how you do it, but please find a way to make it clear when you're using irony or showing something for human interest or "color commentary" (no pun intended).
John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate is not news. Ok it is news-worthy, but it is not news. She's not the first woman and in fact has no distinction whatsoever. If you haven't noticed, the rest of the country moved on years ago when Geraldine Ferarro was the Democratic nominee back in 1984. If anything this just shows that the Republicans are 24 years behind. Once you've had a female VP nominee 24 years in the past, and a female presidential nominee in the current year, a female vice presidential nominee, especially one with so little to recommend her, is not news, it's a publicity stunt.
