Totally outrageous news about today's most vapid celebrities?

Blame Howard Kurtz for "inspiring" me to come up with this headline. It's one of my responses to his recent Twitter question asking us to name our biggest gripe about today's media.

At one level, this little post of mine is just a cheap trick to see if people will overlook the headline's complete meaning and its question mark and actually click on the link to my blog, thus at least momentarily boosting its circulation and generating a few angry responses.

If you hype it, they will come!

At another level, it is just one old writer's futile rant against the incessant cult of celebrity worship--which no doubt has been going strong since the days of totally cool cave people, but now is made more visible and pervasive by electronic media and the Internet.

So, sorry, you'll learn nothing new or even old about celebrities here, vapid or otherwise. My answer to Howard Kurtz's question is that the media world seems to increasingly revolve around entertainment and sports stars--and to rely upon them for survival--while many, many worthy stories, causes and issues languish or are completely overshadowed or ignored.

Hey, but thanks for dropping by. While you're here, feel free to read some of my other missives that have been blotted out by the glare of the glitterati--and the fact that there are now millions of other blogs competing for the even barest bits of attention.

-- Si Dunn

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