Fortifi@ Humor iPhony.....I Love Paris in the Mourning

MSNBC Journo Tears Paris to Shreds Posted Jun 27th 2007 1:58PM by Ben Greenman Filed under: Media, Celebrity, Paris Hilton So, Mika Brzezinski, on MSNBC, had a histrionic, possibly staged freakout during which she refused to lead with the Paris Hilton story, called her producer out (by name) for scheduling it atop her newscast, and even tried to burn the paper with the Hilton copy. Staged or not, does she have a point?     She's not the first journalist to voice disgust and disappointment with the media's obsession with celebrity (it happened on CNN as well), but the protests ultimately seem ineffective -- the networks keep covering Paris on their newscasts and interview shows, and if it's not Paris, it's dead pregnant women in Ohio, or high school students having sex with their teachers. In fact, on nights when the war is going especially bad, or Rudy Giuliani's South Carolina chairman, state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, is indicted on federal cocaine charges, Fox News seems to talk only about celebrities, shocking murders, and hot-button social issues, and other networks are equally conflicted about their missions. Tabloid TV is a complicated process: it skirts real stories, which is both a failure of the system and a strategy of it. Video of Brzezinski's Network moment below.