ThinkProgress: VIDEO COMPILATION: The Assault On Reason, Paris Hilton Edition

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Paris has a point! Too bad the media whores didn't recognize this, or just don't care.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/10/paris-lowlights/

VIDEO COMPILATION: The Assault On Reason, Paris Hilton Edition

The media’s latest “serial obsession” focuses on Paris Hilton’s jail sentence. On Friday, MSNBC abruptly cut away from coverage of Gen. Peter Pace’s replacement (with producers screaming in the background) to return to Paris Hilton. A CNN anchor proudly called the station “the most trusted name in Paris news,” and during Friday’s broadcast of Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News, “the Paris Hilton ‘news’ got more coverage on CBS than a roadside bomb killing a U.S. soldier, the immigration legislation, and passage of the stem-cell bill combined — times two.”

ThinkProgress has compiled some lowlights of the media’s Paris coverage. Watch it at link~

Even Paris Hilton realizes that the media’s priorities are misplaced. Last night, she issued a statement to the media asking that they stop focusing on her, and start focusing “on more important things”:

I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials. I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world.