The United States of America should change its initials from USA to ADD because we definitely have it. If you don’t believe me, just watch any television program.
I have decided that I can no longer watch the news because it’s not really news anymore. Most of it is just pointless.
I watched a story on a sleep study that reported if you do not get enough sleep, then you will not have much energy. Thank you for telling me that, news program. Do you have any other great pearls of wisdom for me?
Another time, I watched a news broadcast on Lindsay Lohan’s checking into rehab. The news mentioned nothing on the war, nothing on disease, nothing even on the oil spill in the Gulf.
How is that even newsworthy? She is a washed up actress who gets drunk and acts like an idiot. Why do people care?
It would only be newsworthy if the opposite had happened. It would be more of a story if a girl took 20 Jell-O shots and decided to go back to law school instead of getting a tattoo on her lower back. But instead of real news, we are distracted with the stories of annoying, talentless people like Kate Gosselin and Kim Kardashian.
A perfect example of talentless people getting airtime is little people, aka midgets. I mean seriously, there are at least five shows on television about little people. My goodness, there’s “Pit Boss,” “Little People, Big World,” “the Little Couple,” “Half Pint Brawlers,” and “Honey We Shrunk the Kids!”
Alright, I made that last one up.
How did they come up with this idea? Is it me or is TLC getting a little short with its variety? It’s almost like they are looking for a distraction.
People like Stefani Germanotta, more popularly known as Lady GaGa, truly suffer. While she possessed a talent for singing and song writing, America’s need for terrible entertainment forced her to rely on bizarre outfits and questionable music lyrics to survive.
That makes as much sense as me quitting the newspaper and writing something nonsensical on the Internet like, “How the heck am I supposed to eat soup without an envelope?”
But hey, who knows? Maybe in America it could make me famous.
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