"NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Americans blame the media for the saturation of celebrity coverage on TV"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070803/en_nm/celebrities_dc

So who's to blame? The Media? Or the public? Gossip site http://www.perezhilton.com/ last week reached almost 9 million hits in one day, almost the same number of veiwers who tune into Larry King and CNN nightly. With sites like Perez's (which I enjoy, quite honestly) sprouting up in droves (and I'm pretty sure this blog will adhere to the same functionalities) It's no wonder King and CNN and the like are playing catch-up with the new wave of gossip-bloggings.

Back in June, Larry King quickly scored P. Hilton's first live interview since she was released from her squat cooltank. In the process, bumping "Sicko" director Michael Moore. Moore sauntered over to Jon Stewart's desk for a chat ("Bastard" Moore said in mock anger about Mr. King.) and eventually joined Lar the following Friday (Friday!?? Who watches CNN on friday - Oh wait - [in Gilda Radner Emily Litella voice] - never mind. )

I watched the prim miss Hilton that night of course, waiting, waiting, waiting for her to say something interesting but no such moment came. I'm sure more substantial and meaningful talk would have come from Mike Moore but that's not what gets viewers. Larry can be classy when he wants - his sit down with Al Pacino weeks before was among his best but when you're in the business as long as he has you gotta give the peeps what they want or at least what he thinks they want. To his credit Paris was a true "Get". After the outrage that followed when NBC was rumoured to pay shiny P.H. a million $$$ they quickly decided against that and scapped the whole thing. Who knows what went on with Hilton and Barbera Walters but it seemed like Walters missed out. Walters has stated that ABC wanted the interview but she did not. Did she choose true journalistic ethics over sensationalism? Who knows. Only Walters can say. In the days during Paris's whoop-de-doo release a few reporters would flatly refuse on-air to report items about Hilty. Good for them. But also like it or not - it is news.

It's hard to know where to take a stance. Some outlets have become absolutely sickening over the years. Entertainment Tonight used to be about the biz, now it's trash and not even enjoyable trash. It's become sleazy, exploitive moronic trash. I swear, every single day for two months straight this year it was "Anna Nicole - like you've never seen her" Who cares?? People were tired of hearing about Anna Nicole long before she died. And Enterstupid Tonight exploited the situation to the point of making me wanna puke (By the way, Welcome to my blog - this is what you're in for. Yaayyy!)

But as you can see, my blog will not be helping things either. I will be writing about pop-junk-culture because well - as much as i claim to loathe the state of things - I frakin' love it!! I'm very hypocritical. I'm shameless, as you will see.