MeneerDijk
08-21-2005, 09:01 AM
First of all, sorry about the title, i bet you were so shocked to read it you knocked over a cup of coffee on your keyboard, i can't be held liable. The reason for this title is purely sarcastic. Let me explain.
One of the first things i do each morning is surf to this site, read my mail, start my messenger....and then read the news in my RSS reader. Although i prefer the old fashioned newspaper you can hold, an have dogs pee on, a subscription on one is really expensive. So i get my news of the world electronically, with an RSS reader.
On the top of my list is a, what i thought to be, a serious news feed. Followed by formula one news, some other news feeds, outpostnine feed, cockeyed.com feed etc. etc. So i select the serious news feed, and this headline hits me: Marriage Paris Hilton canceled. So ofcourse i called the national gaurd, took off all my clothes, poured chocolate milk all over my body and ran around outside screaming to people about the inevitable end of the world.... NOT!!!
I can not begin to explain the incredible indifference i feel towards Paris Hilton's lovelife. And don't get me wrong, this is not a rant about Ms. Hilton in particular, it's about non-news seeping through serious news media. If i want to read about the troubles that hit celebrity's i'll go out and buy some tabloid or a gossip magazine. If i subscribe to a serious news feed i want to read about the important stuff that's happening in the world, like the war in Iraqistan or about the forest fires in Portugal that seem to be uncontrollable.
Why do the writers of the news feed, and other news media, automatically assume i have a sucky life myself and i have to leech of the misery that happens to celebritys to make myself feel better? What's so special about celebrity's anyway? sure some of them have a special gift that i don't have, like a good singing voice or the ability to act. But i have the special gift of learning how to use electronical equipment, like computer's or VCR's faster than most people. Hell, i get rid of that annoying blinking 12:00 faster then you can say: manual. But you don't see an article devoted to me everytime i fart in public!
*pant*
While i was ranting, Lady Irony decided to make a news headline pop-up in the lower right corner of my screen, stating that Courtney Love says she's pregnant... Ok! time to get the chocolate milk! :(
One of the first things i do each morning is surf to this site, read my mail, start my messenger....and then read the news in my RSS reader. Although i prefer the old fashioned newspaper you can hold, an have dogs pee on, a subscription on one is really expensive. So i get my news of the world electronically, with an RSS reader.
On the top of my list is a, what i thought to be, a serious news feed. Followed by formula one news, some other news feeds, outpostnine feed, cockeyed.com feed etc. etc. So i select the serious news feed, and this headline hits me: Marriage Paris Hilton canceled. So ofcourse i called the national gaurd, took off all my clothes, poured chocolate milk all over my body and ran around outside screaming to people about the inevitable end of the world.... NOT!!!
I can not begin to explain the incredible indifference i feel towards Paris Hilton's lovelife. And don't get me wrong, this is not a rant about Ms. Hilton in particular, it's about non-news seeping through serious news media. If i want to read about the troubles that hit celebrity's i'll go out and buy some tabloid or a gossip magazine. If i subscribe to a serious news feed i want to read about the important stuff that's happening in the world, like the war in Iraqistan or about the forest fires in Portugal that seem to be uncontrollable.
Why do the writers of the news feed, and other news media, automatically assume i have a sucky life myself and i have to leech of the misery that happens to celebritys to make myself feel better? What's so special about celebrity's anyway? sure some of them have a special gift that i don't have, like a good singing voice or the ability to act. But i have the special gift of learning how to use electronical equipment, like computer's or VCR's faster than most people. Hell, i get rid of that annoying blinking 12:00 faster then you can say: manual. But you don't see an article devoted to me everytime i fart in public!
*pant*
While i was ranting, Lady Irony decided to make a news headline pop-up in the lower right corner of my screen, stating that Courtney Love says she's pregnant... Ok! time to get the chocolate milk! :(