I think the media only gives the masses what they want to see. Remember, they are in the entertainment business. They do serious research on what the viewers want to see. If WE weren’t so interested THEY wouldn't keep it on the front page. I recently had a person at the Y ask me if it wasn't awful how everybody was talking about some pop culture news item. My reply was, "Guess what, you are one of them."

Our news doesn’t cover in-depth issues like European politics, Afghan government structure, Iraq politics, et al because we, the great public have the attention span on a gnat. But WE seem to know way more about what star screwed what other star than we do about who is the current leader of Mexico.