rejournalization

Rejournalization is not a fan of Paris Hilton, hating the fact that we have to constantly see her in our myriad of news feeds. The revered Associated Press, apparently, isn’t too fond of her, either. Last week they opted to not publish any story about the dumbfounding heiress celebutard:

It turned out that people noticed plenty — but not in the way that might have been expected. None of the thousands of media outlets that depend on AP called in asking for a Paris Hilton story. No one felt a newsworthy event had been ignored. (To be fair, nothing too out-of-the-ordinary happened in the Hilton universe.)

The reaction was to the idea of the ban, not the effects of it. There was some internal hand-wringing. Some felt we were tinkering dangerously with the news. Whom, they asked, would we ban next? Others loved the idea. “I vote we do the same for North Korea,” one AP writer said facetiously.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled no Paris news.

March 4th, 2007
Categories: celebrity . Author: mist .

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