Reply #9: News flash: Sharon Stone is just another dumb actor. [View All]

Part of the stupidity of entertainment news (in a news media that's generally stupid) is the insistence that what an actor thinks about China, or Bush, or global warming, deserves to be in the headlines.

If that actor does something specific in private life - let's say, sets up a charity and participates in it - well, okay, that's a story. Not a headline story, but a story. But to take a casual statement about anything in the news - something probably said to make people like the actor a little more - and call it "headline news" is irresponsible and stupid on the part of the press.

Entertainment news actually used to cover the entertainment media and serious issues about what the business was doing. Now it's collecting quotes about Tom Cruise, Sharon Stone and Keanu Reeves. It's just another step in the megacorporate media preventing us from really knowing what's going on.