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Every post like yours, and now mine, encourage CNN and every other network to talk about her more. When you complain about CNN, you are talking about them. You are watching them. You are encouraging others to do so. That's what they want, that's exactly why they are in business. It's been said that when Congresscritters get letters or emails on a topic, they basically put the "ayes" on one pile and the "nays" in the other and udge which stack is higher. The media does it differently. They take every letter, email, blog reference, etc, and they put them all in one stack to see how high it is. They don't care if every single mention of their coverage of Hilton is negative. They only care that you mention her. That means you are watching.
There's a really bad sports radio show host called Cowlin Cowherd (not sure on the spelling). He's always wrong on his predictions, he's got less insight into human beings than anyone I've ever heard, he's so right wing that it affects his sports stories. Every day he picks some topic, and takes the most disgusting, most extreme, and usually most wrong, position on that topic he possibly can. And most of the calls he takes are from people telling him he's fucking stupid. And he never admits he's wrong. You could quote him the Encyclopedia Brittanica and Sports Illustrated proving absolutely that his facts are wrong, and he'll argue that he's right and that your opinion is stupid. And that's all he does--disagree with his callers in an attempt to piss them off. The madder they get, the more people call in and tell him he's an idiot, and the higher his ratings go. He even states this from time to time, laughing at his audience as though he's playing them all for saps.
That's what CNN does with it's Paris Hilton coverage. They want you to be pissed off. They want you to complain to them about it. They want you to go on Democratic Underground and say just how obscene their focus is. And they want you to hate Paris Hilton herself, because that makes you even madder that they are covering her (same reason they like Ann Coulter's vile comments). That means they've done their job.
When they've failed at their job is when you do like I do. Turn them off, never turn them back on. That's their biggest fear. That's their only fear.
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