What is it about celebrities’ private lives that so fascinates the media? Is the media responding to an insatiable desire from their readers and viewers to know more about their affairs, or does the media start the gossip that generates it’s own momentum?

Of course people are intensely interested in other people, whether they are celebrities or not, but pursuit of prurient details of behaving badly, or married or divorce proceedings seems to border on a mental sickness.

I’m not really interested in how the marriage of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett is going. But Ellen DeGeneres is preoccupied with marriage and divorce in her recent shows. Not that I watch them, but how can one avoid the excerpts that are splashed across the other media outlets as if it were news?

I mean even CNN discusses a goofy John McCain on Ms Degeneres’ show. There’s a strange nether world of CNN content that focuses on meta news - news about the making of news, or reporting about the writing about the issues, instead of just going straight to the news itself. How many ‘wars’ can Lou Dobbs create?

Will Smith declared that ‘divorce is not an option’. That’s newsworthy? Without knowing the conversation that lead to that statement, why did it ever come up? What’s so unusual about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett being married for 10 years? That is the question Hollywood people should be asking of themselves.

Celebrities seem to live in a rarified world that is far removed from the reality of most normal people’s lives. That makes them unusual but not admirable or newsworthy.

Our society has too few real heroes, too few examples of good behavior worth emulating, and no new parables and folklore to repeat.

Give me some news stories that are uplifting, enlightening, memorable, and worth emulating. Something that appeals to the nobler thoughts of our value system.

They say that doesn’t sell papers, pump ratings, or sell advertising space. But if we read and support media that only appeals to the lowest level of behavior what are we encouraging? Anyone can get married and then get a divorce lawyer to settle the messy bits.

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