I think it might be making us dumber as a nation.
If I am your first stop toward gathering the information you need in order to navigate the world, you are stopping at the wrong place. I'm just for fun. This should not be a serious newsgathering moment for you.
But during those times that used to be serious info gathering moments you're still having to listen to someone talk about someone who talked about something to someone else, and that's not the stuff you need. You need more.
For example:
"Trampy Ho-Bag spoke to We Love Access to Celebs And Fear Pat Kingsley Magazine reporter Mainstream Suckup for the cover story of their March issue, and we have the details."
And then they show you the reporter talking about how just being in the same room as said celebrity cured their rectal cancer. Okay, that's a stretch, but you know these articles usually are as puffy as the clouds in the sky.
(Even more ironic, yet fitting, is that most of you, after you see the writer interviewed for the article on the celeb probably know all the salient facts from the article, because, well, there aren't many salient facts. And you guys never even read the article, so you end up not even having the exercise of reading.)
And long? How long a story do you really wanna know about someone like Nicole Kidman anyway? And not just her, any of them. The more I know about them, the less intriguing their performances seem to be.
That's why I don't really care about what they do on their off hours, unless it's just a trainwreck situation. I mean, how can you look away from the Spears or Lohan families? It like resisting chocolate, or sex oh, let's just leave it at chocolate.
