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cnn breaking news
Submitted by msblogger1220 on 7 November 2006 - 5:46pm.
I just thought that I had to share this all with you. I got one of my "CNN Breaking News" emails today, expecting to see something about the outcome of elections, how election day was going, or something like that. No, what CNN feels is most important to tell me today, Election Day, is that Britney Spears filed for divorce from Kevin Federline. And CNN is supposed to be one of the serious news sources that will tell me important information about the world. While I see that some citizens view things such as Britney's love life as something more important that voting (maybe that's why we have such low voter turnouts), I would think that the CNN Breaking News Bulletins would be saved for something a little more academic or political and that people could find out stuff about Britney's divorce procedures on people.com ??
Anyway, I just thought that was interesting and something to rant about a bit. Maybe it angers me because I'm pissed at Britney for marrying that idiot in the first place.
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About time
But isn't it about time that Britney came to her senses and dumped the crazy idiot? That was one of the news item I heard that made yesterday so wonderful.
And a little more seriously...is there any instance in which you would consider a divorce to be news? What about Prince Charles and Princess Diana? Was that news when it happened? What if Kobe and his wife had gotten divorced after his rape trial? Would that have been newsworthy? I just feel that it's easy to have the gut reaction that it's such a travesty for this stuff to be clogging up our airwaves, but I have to think why? Why is it a travesty? Maybe you think that no divorce or marriage should be in the news, and you might have an argument there. However, when you start qualifying the importance of some people's personal lives over others you're imposing your value judgments on others. Maybe some people don't care about basketball and couldn't care less about Kobe Bryant, while others aspire to be him and could be crushed or sympathetic. Why should I care about a British divorce if I'm American? It doesn't affect me. However, if I bought one of Britney's albums (which I didn't for the record) and I thought she found true happiness with KFed, maybe I'm distraught now. Celebrities are like real-life soap operas, as VH1 as so graciously proven. We have our heroes and our villains, and now we've reached another turn in the plot. Additionally, for a couple that lived so visibly in the public sphere (the Vanity Fair cover, "Popozao") I think it's fitting that their relationship end in the public sphere. They brought it on themselves.