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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
I say “enough!” There once was a time, not so long ago, that we bought a newspaper to learn about the news, world events, what happened to our hometown sport teams, and a very occasional weird item that we could talk about around the water cooler the next day.
However, with the onset of social media, and more ways to get the news than a porcupine has quills, everywhere you look every Tom, Dick, Harry, Charlotte, and Gwyneth post every miniscule fact about their very uninteresting lives, some nonsense that makes not a damn bit of difference to anyone, not even themselves. To add insult to insanity the dailies see fit to print this tripe as if it were more important than an impending collision with a giant asteroid.
I was sifting through the papers the other day and I was bombarded with pictures of Scout, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, walking around topless in protest of her pictures being scratched off of Instagram; actress and new mom Jaime King breast-feeding while showing off her child and breast on an Instagram pic; and singer Rihanna accepting a fashion award in a see-through frock that was little more than a silk hankie with a few beads thrown in for good measure, for her oh-so-exceptional taste in clothing.
I wanted to shred these papers and use it for cat litter, cozy up to a book, and read until this nightmare of present day journalism goes away.
I don’t care if you want to go topless, bottomless, or brainless, I just don’t want to see it. I don’t care if you want to breast feed, bottle feed, or have a nanny do it, it’s your baby, so suckle anyway you like, just don’t share it with all of us. And I certainly don’t care how many Kardashians are pregnant, about to be pregnant, or have just given birth. Give it a rest.
Isn’t it enough that there is reality television? Do we really need reality news too?
To add to the list, many celebrities who fancy themselves experts feel compelled to stand up for a cause — any cause — just to keep their names and mugs in the papers.
I ask you, do you really care if Justin Bieber has been baptized since his last video? Do you care that Gwyneth has uncoupled or is on a pineapple cleanse purge?
Not a whit, not I — no-no, nothing, nada, not a blessed thing. I much prefer finding out why the president saw fit to trade five high-ranking Taliban prisoners of war for one soldier who allegedly walked off his base of his own volition, and didn’t bother to let Congress or anyone else know. Since when do we negotiate with terrorists? And, secondly, why hasn’t the president negotiated with Mexico, our neighbor to the south, to get a U.S. soldier who is being confined in jail released? Hello?
Not for Nuthin™, but wouldn’t it be novel to just read about the news, just the news, ma’am, just the news?
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