On 14 Feb 2003 at 6:07, Karen Rhodes wrote:

> Some people do go overboard with this adulation of celebrities.  All the
> stuff on TV sometimes makes me gag.  Like all this stuff over Michael
> Jackson these days.   There are stories out there that really ARE news; the
> media don't need to go bonkers over something that is so totally
> manufactured, anyway.  Sheesh.

It's cheaper and it sells better.  News coverage costs money and your 
most valuable demographic bloc, the advertisers, doesn't really want 
to hear much of it -- puts the sheep off their feed, doncha know.  
Celebrity hooha is free,  there's an entire industry devoted to 
shoveling it into the spaces for you, and the advertisers feel 
comfortable that it'll keep the peons reading long enough to see the 
ads.






               Albest,

                        Clayton

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