Weekly Whine, Episode 2

This weeks topic:

• Entertainment Information and/or Media Whores

MLB pitcher and recent New York Yankees acquisition, Randy Johnson, apologized yesterday for a run in with a WCBS TV camera man on Monday in Manhattan. Let me ask you a question, how would you react if you were leaving a hotel, on your way to a doctors appointment and a stranger jumped out from behind a bush and stuck a camera in your face? Another question, what would you do if the person continued to force a camera in your face after you told the person you did not want to be bothered? Randy Johnson had every right to push the camera out of his face. The asshole photographer should be the one apologizing to Randy Johnson.

There's something seriously wrong in our society when a baseball player, actor, musician, etc. feels it is necessary to apologize because they do not want to be bothered. If it was during a game, fine, snap a million pictures. Are we at a point in our society where "the need to know" outweigh's an individuals personal freedom? Turn on your TV, any evening, and look at the number of "entertainment information" shows that air most nights. Do we actually care about this shit, or, are we so bombarded with so much of this crap we automatically accept it as something we are interested in? "If it's on the boob-tube it must be important...pass the cheeze-whiz, Martha"

E-Now, E-Talk Daily, Entertainment Tonight...I could accept the need for these shows if the information was based on a celebrity's work and their personal lives were not mentioned, recorded, video taped, or completely stolen. Could someone please, I beg you, please, tell me why we are fascinated by Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchy? These 2 are the ultimate media whores. They will do anything for attention, media whores personified. How many "celebrity whores" do we need to "go through" before we wake up? These celebrity's are media darlings one day and trash the next day..."move 'em on out, we got a new crew coming through"

And we lap it up and continue to come back for more.

Most importantly, what are we going to do with the ultimate Canadian media whore: Ben Mulroney? (Damn, I shuddered when I typed M-u-l-r-o-n-e-y)...Surely he's whored his 15 minutes away by now, unless he still has his pocketfull of cliches for us Canadians. Send him to America!

I'm BC and I'll BC'ing ya