On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just decided that all the egomaniacal gasbags in Hollywood need > to just drop off my radar. I've taught online marketing and personal > branding for the last 18 months and, as a matter of course, had to > follow chunkheads like Sheen and Paris Hilton. Now that I don't have > to do that anymore, I want them to fade back into the obscurity of > being somebody else's problem. > > Remember during the Clinton years when we as a nation stopped reacting > to Rush Limbaugh and he almost vanished from notoriety? By ignoring > him, we minimized him. It wasn't until a few years later when the > Olbermann's of the world felt the need to call out the guy for being > the lunatic he obviously is that the spotlight shone upon him again. > > I choose to ignore Sarah Palin because she is a nonentity and not > worth my time. Same with Sheen and Rush and anybody named Kardashian. > I just don't have the energy to care about these people who so clearly > don't care for anyone else but themselves. Sheen's new sitcom might be > the best since The Bob Newhart Show; I don't care. It doesn't exist in > my universe.
As much as I agree with you and have been going out of my way to ignore celebrity news, we don't control the conversation. People need common reference points for casual conversation, especially in places where strangers meet like hair salons, checkout lines, and airport gates, and where politics or sports (among men, mostly) could get inflamed or contentious quickly, following celebrity foibles is commonly acceptable and the crowd is most often on one side. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
