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By: Bad Girls Rule « Postcard Headlines

Bad Girls Rule « Postcard Headlines — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:29:14 +0000

[...] Again I would opt for the simplistic here. I won’t ask why a Google search would turn up with five more items about Paris Hilton than the deadly humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Instead, I’ll sarcastically say that most of us secretly want people like her “to do anything” so that we would have someone to blame for the world’s woes. [...]

By: WIMN’s Voices: A Group Blog on Women, Media, AND… » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton vs. Michael Moore? What about Paris Hilton vs. DARFUR?

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:28:02 +0000

[...] Our media system is broken. Recently, the blogosphere was buzzing about the fact that a Google search turns up five times more references to Paris Hilton than to the deadly humanitarian crisis in Darfur — approx. 68,200,000 Hilton hits to approx. 13,500,000 mentions of Darfur. That’s an interesting stat, but Google includes livejournals, entertainment zines, celebrity fan forums and the like; what I care about is actual journalism. So, today I did a “major newspapers” search in the Nexis.com news database, and found that over the past month Paris Hilton was mentioned in 2246 newspaper stories, while these same papers referenced Darfur in only 919 stories. [...]

By: Luna

Luna — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:17:11 +0000

Sadly true….!

Serenas getting Compton gangstar on that tennis racket….

i love your blog M…officially one of favourite internet stopovers…

love that kimya kimya song

By: munyanta

munyanta — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:14:40 +0000

maze serena ameshona tu vi’ nasty !! it looks really bad……

By: udi

udi — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:00:26 +0000

She is one highly publicized porn star

By: Explosion In Nairobi : Follow-up - tHiNkEr’S rOoM

Explosion In Nairobi : Follow-up - tHiNkEr’S rOoM — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:14:31 +0000

[...] If it turns out the explosion was a mere gas cylinder, the damage will already have been done. Once you put something on the Internet, there it stays. For instance, do a search for suicide bombers Kenya or suicide bomber Nairobi and see what turns up. Since it is already apparent that sensationalism generally wins over facts, our reputation will have been needlessly sullied [...]

By: wathiifm

wathiifm — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:07:08 +0000

It’s coz we are black!

By: acolyte

acolyte — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:16:57 +0000

It was rather sad the fact that there was breaking news on the whole Paris Hilton saga, to the fact that helicopters were flying over the court house when she was sent back to prison. While in the meanwhile Darfur is slowly fading into the background of our awareness.

Then in like 10 years we will commemorate the whole thing, like we did for Rwanda and Kosovo, standing with faced twisted with emotion and hint of tears in our eyes saying "never again!".

As for Serena Williams, she serves the ball faster than some male tennis players do, so imagine what would happen if her tennis racket connected with the side of your head!

She'd make a good celebrity character in Mortal Kombat

By: egm

egm — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:04:27 +0000

One of the reasons I don't watch much tv is the inanity pretending to be news coverage. On Friday in the cafeteria at work the tvs had "Breaking News" type coverage of the Paris Hilton she's now in jail, she's now out of jail saga for the entire hour.

I was also amazed that CNN were interrupting headline news for such absurdity!

Serena is a tough tenis player. Those biceps, yawa!

Arm wrestle with her at your peril

By: Shiroh

Shiroh — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:53:26 +0000

Most Americans are obsessed with celebrities than they would about Darfur.

It's not just Americas. I bet Kenyans are just as bad, fussing over celebs!!

As Jesus said "Let the Dead bury their Dead". Sudan could as well be in that situation. A lot of blogs have a story about Hilton but not Darfur that could be the reason. Insane as it is

And therein lies the problem ... why can't we as a society get our priorities straght?