Why Is This Such Big News?!?

Ok, apparently, unless you've been living in a cave or don't have internet or a TV, you've heard that Anna Nicole Smith has died, at the "tender" age of 39. So, let me ask the obvious. WHY IS THIS SUCH BIG NEWS?!? Yes, the former porn star, playboy model, gold digger died suddenly and very shortly after her son died of unknown causes, but c'mon! More famous people have died, and they didn't interrupt REGULAR PROGRAMMING to report this. I mean, if you didn't know any better, you would have thought that this was the most important thing happening in the news yesterday. I mean, it was all over, non-stop. According to my sister, Oprah was interrupted to bring this late-breaking news story.

I half expected to see the news channels interrupt stories about deaths in Iraq or slaughters in Darfur to report this gargantuan news alert. Oh wait, there are no reporters in Sudan, so that genocide isn't really a big news story and not really happening. Seriously, is this the current state of American culture and the MSM? That this is front page headlines on anything other than entertainment and tabloid magazines is completely ridiculous. It was even news here, but at least, it was LAST PAGE and last segment news, and it was in a tiny article. No offense, I'm sorry she's dead because she's a human being, but who the hell cares this much? She is not this news worthy. She was never THAT famous, and the reasons that she is famous are disgusting and apprehensible in their own right. Can any-one tell me if they interrupted regular programing to report that Saddam had been hanged or captured? Seriously. Yesterday's events were just so laughable and ridiculous, I couldn't believe it. When pop-cultural icons die, they don't interrupt regular programing to report that. So, why was she so special to merit this kind of treatment in her passing? I just don't get it. Can some-one please explain it to me?

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