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    Front page a waste of precious time

    As The World Burns

    In a perfect world, if one were to turn on the news, they would be able to learn about all the issues affecting this small little world. The news would enlighten us and awake the public from their sleep of ignorance.

    Of course, that is only in a perfect world. But instead, the front page shows celebrities having meltdowns, someone’s personal life, a DUI, hilarious YouTube videos, the death of someone historically insignificant, missing white girls or cute animals that do the most adorable things.

    You might think now that Barack Obama is president, things might get a little better but the sad reality is nothing much has changed except for a few wars and the body count of the world.

    While on the topic of Obama, his amazing victory has been all over the news for its historical significance along with the symbolism that has been created around his image. What is not important is all the random trivial items that have made CNN such as the new dog or where Obama likes to eat.

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    The people had elected Obama to help rebuild the economy, since at the moment families are struggling to survive in these troubled times. Correction, real families who live in real homes as opposed to some wealthy families who were struggling to save their cave house.

    While helpless families are getting evicted and tossed to the streets, there was a lot of attention given to only one family just because they had some cave house, compared to a simple home in a simple neighborhood.

    But what is amazing is that while the inauguration of Obama (a major historical event) was on Wikipedia’s home page for only a day, while the birth of quintuplets was on the home page for more than a week.

    What became even more annoying was the constant news reports of how the mother was doing and the struggle she was going through. It’s funny, one woman is able to squeeze eight out and it becomes national news, but when my buddy takes the longest dump nobody on MySpace is interested.

    Most people seem to have forgotten what giving birth to quintuplets really is: A burden you could have flushed months ago but decided to keep, so the weight won’t be lifted until they either go to college, Hollywood or prison.

    However this is nothing compared to the hype created by Stephen Fowler’s appearance on “Wife Swap.” The treatment of Gayla Long was cruel, but it was not something worth being on the news.

    It appears that most people forgot about the natural contract of reality television where the minute someone signs on to a show, they officially become a national clown for our entertainment.

    While ragging on reality television, one has to ask why does who got voted off American Idol always seem to make the news (especially Fox News)? How does some talent less nobody getting booted off a mediocre show is as worthy as the conflicts of the Middle East or the crumbling economy?

    I’m sure everyone has heard people nagging about media reform for a better democracy and it’s because what’s on the news is just a good enough reason for anyone to ask God to take away their sense of sight, sound and reason just to avoid the hot topic issues on Lucifer’s dream box.

    With the current trends of celebrities going insane or unnecessary news about quintuplets, one would just want to get excited about sitting back and watching as the world burns.

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