Letters from a Los Angeles Jail: The Wisdom of Paris Hilton

Hi,

Why would you even bother writing about Paris? It's the media who made this nobody into somebody- as long as it was the tabloid media it was fine...but for me to get to the Times website and read this....Wow! now she is infiltrating respectable (formerly ) mainstream media as effortlessly...Maybe she has more power than you realise.

However, my point, the less you speak about her, hopefully, the faster she'll disappear.

Thanks,

Indie

Hilarious article - spot-on about her interview last night!

Love it! If there is a place for Paris, it's in the underworld of blogs. Let's keep her out of the spot lights and in the red lights where she's more comfortable.

The only news here is that she plagarised a quote from a great writer.

The Eldridge Cleaver thing is a joke, by the way. (The joke being that Paris spent three weeks in the can and suddenly she's supposed to be a prison memoirist.)

Really, writing about this airhead only provides her with attention that she does not deserve. How such a nobody, who has not done anything meaningful in her life other than distastefully exhibiting herself as a spoiled, ignorant, self-centered and bad-mannered fool can make the headlines all over the US is not understandable. What is wrong with you people?

I'm still surprised that her jail experience wasn't spun into a reality show.

As a media critic, shouldn't you be focussed more on the fact that Larry King bumped Michael Moore (who was scheduled for the entire hour last night) for Paris Hilton?

I know that Stengel singled you out for praise in his "screw all you Time reporters who took the job thinking you were writing for a weekly news magazine, you're job is not to provide content for Time.com" memo, and maybe you feel some special obligation to provide content by writing about obviously insipid subjects in an insipidly obvious fashion because doing real media criticism takes much more time and effort.

But this post doesn't just lower the bar, it buries it.

oops,

the above description of the Stengel memo should read "your job is NOW to provide content for Time.com" rather than "you're job is not to provide..."

(Memo to self.... the "preview" is your friend. Use it.)

@paul: Honestly? I'm not sure I see the real-media-criticism angle in Michael Moore's being bumped. Unless the schedule has changed, Moore--who is not exactly being ignored by the MSM at this juncture--is on Friday night. It doesn't exactly seem like he's being muzzled. I have a hard time thinking of anyone who LKL *wouldn't* have bumped to schedule the Paris interview.

James:

Honestly. The "real media criticism angle" is the "news" media's priorities. Michael Moore, who is single-handedly in the process of making health-care a national priority (it wasn't discussed in any of the GOP debates... Moore will make it next to impossible for the GOP to ignore the issue in the next debate) is important to what the news is supposed to be about. Paris Hilton isn't.

But its more important for CNN to get the FIRST interview with Hilton than it is to discuss the health care crisis in this country with Michael Moore. (And although Moore may be scheduled for Friday, some other "big story" could pop up in the next 36 hours, and Moore's time could be shortened, or he could be bumped entirely.)

And while Moore is "not being ignored by the media", the corporate media is generally hostile to Moore because his very success is an indictment of the way in which they've trivialized what is called "news." LKL is one of the few places where Moore won't be trying to get his message out sandwiched between a hostile anchor who is more concerned his trip to Cuba than what he thinks about health care, and right-wing bloviators or insurance lobbyists whose sole purpose is to discredit Moore.

At least, that's my idea of the "real media criticism angle." But what do I know?

Everyone knows that when you are a celebrity, any publicity is good publicity. If you listended and watch her verbal and non verbal responses she is becoming more cunning. She is being coached to do and say things that the public (fans, people without lives, couch potatoes) want to hear. I have grown so intolerable of these type of people that I would pay good money to see these people humiliated. I am very happy with my life because it is real, it's mine and no one coaches me how to conduct myself in court, jail or behind the wheel. My only pity for these types of people comes from the fact that I own my life-and that makes me a much better person than they are...

Funny article, did not capture exactly how boring it really was. It was more like watching a snail trying to pole fault but doesn't really know whhaat to do with the pole or how to run.

"writing about this airhead only provides her with attention that she does not deserve"

I guess that says it all: We think she does not deserve any of the attention she is getting, preach how you should not write about her, even worse. Write comments about how we should not write about her. Something is up or we would just ignore it.

It is one thing to steal an interview from Michael Moore, whom I believe was previously scheduled to speak with Larry King Wednesday evening and actually had something newsworthy to share with the world; and quite another to witness the reason for which his interview was canceled.

I actually had to give Paris the benefit of a doubt and see what she had to say: NOTHING; that is to what the whole interview came down. It is truly a shame that in her quest for further publicity this individual chose to insult the intelligence of her many supporters and non-supporters and blatantly lie about her previous drug use, which is well documented on the Internet. Other than that, I think your write-up well describes the dull interview lacking any kind of material substance.

Is this what America has come to value? Is it time to re-evaluate what is a matter of importance and what is not? How many people go to jail, even when they have not committed the crime and survive? She called this a "very traumatic experience"? Give us all a break... a very traumatic experience is living in Iraq and having everything you own blown away; waking up to a flooding town and learning your house and all belonging, as well as some family members are gone forever; or even having certain human rights issues (she should read a book about Darfur). Has she ever considered that not having food is a real human tragedy, like many who live in developing nations?

It is time for America to wake up and stop giving so much importance to something of such little value.

This is off the main point but I must say it. "Everyone knows that when you are a celebrity, any publicity is good publicity". Well, that's simply not true. What comes to mind? Meg Ryan's affair with Russell Crowe. Killed her career. Killed. Dead. Buried. Another? Holmes/Cruise love affair. Couch hopping Cruise and MI3 less than stellar box office. Um, Isaiah Washington. So many more examples. Why waste the time though no? John from Cincinatti is actually more interesting than Paris Hilton. Or Lindsay Lohan which by the way was mentioned twice in the latest issue of Wired Magazine. Had to throw up that flag. Talk about depressing. LL in Wired? The world's gone to hell.