Either Americans have given up all pretense of appearing to care about important issues like Iraq, Africa and South Korea’s nuclear threat or we just want a vacation from the incessant bad news flying through the media. It’s probably both as typified by our voting Paris Hilton the number one media star on iwantmedia’s/The Week’s online “Media Person of the Year” poll. Paris is followed closely by Bonnie Fuller. No mention was made of those old farts who actually discuss important news issues on Sunday mornings.
