Bob Herbert: Have They Buried Anna Nicole Smith Yet?

[kpete]

Bob Herbert: From Anna to Britney to Zawahri

Have they buried Anna Nicole Smith yet?

Are you kidding? Ms. Smith may be dead and rapidly decomposing, but there’s too much fun still to be reaped from her story to let it die just yet. This is world-class entertainment: Larry King, “Today,” CNN, The New York Times.


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It was Neil Postman who warned in 1985 that we were amusing ourselves to death. I’m not sure anyone knew how literally to take him.

More than 20 years later, the masses have nearly succeeded in drawing the curtains on anything that’s not entertaining. No one can figure out what do about Iraq or Al Qaeda. A great American cultural center like New Orleans was all but washed away, and no one knows how to put it back together. The ice caps are melting and Al Gore is traveling the land like the town crier, raising the alarm about global warming.

But none of that has really gotten the public’s attention. None of it is amusing enough. As a nation of spectators, we seem content to sit with a pizza and a brew in front of the high-def flat-screen TV, obsessing over Anna Nicole et al., and giving no thought to the possibility that the calamitous events unfolding in the world may someday reach our doorsteps.

more at:
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/02/bob-herbert-from-anna-to-britney-to.html

[acmavm]

1. Jeeze, ain't this the truth. I have to admit I haven't been paying

too much attention because a couple of days ago I was wondering why Howard Stern wasn't doing his radio show and when he started practicing law. I avoid the threads here like the plague. I thought Britney (did I spell that right) shaving her head was a joke. Someone straightened me out on that one too.

[babylonsister]

2. Herbert expresses the disgust I feel over these people feeding off

her dead carcass, the parties involved as well as the media whores.:puke:

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Why don't they just stuff her and put her in a Hollywood museum like they did to

Roy Rogers' Trigger?

[capi888]

4. Keeping the story alive By......

The Bushco administration ??????? Gee ya think? Could they be paying the judge Larry?? Or Stern??? It keeps the attention of the sheep..who don't understand what crises we are in, OR CAN UNDERSTAND. This keeps the antic's of Bush and Cheee-neee off the TV.. Then when we strike Iran...she may get buried somewhere!!! THIS IS INSANE!