Friday, March 16, 2007

Enough about Anna Nicole Smith

Hello anyone...someone please tell me why I am suppose to care about Anna Nicole Smith...Why I am suppose to care about a strung out ex-stripper who had nothing to offer the world but her train wreck of a life...it is outrageous how much money all the news channels, especially the cable news channels have made peddling this insipid story....do you know that over 120 soldiers have died since Anna's death...over 120 American soldiers died fighting for this country...Why are there no news stories about them? Even Fox Made Up News, who claims its supports the troops, showed over 50 videos on Anna, and only one video about the Walter Reed scandal, which technically didn't cover the 120 soldiers who died...only the news crawlers update the body counts...nameless, faceless soldiers die every day...where is our sympathy for them??? what am I missing? Anna matters more than our soldiers? Is Anna a way for people to avoid what is happening in Iraq, the Walter Reed debacle, Libby's conviction, the Gonzales Attorney General Scandal, the abuses of the Patriotic Act, etc...etc...All the news seems to care about is Anna Nicole...Why? I read that 29,000 children die everyday around the world from neglect, poverty, and disease. Anna died 29 days ago. Do the math. Why are there no stories about the hundred of thousands of children who have died since the strung out stripper died? 14% of Americans live at the poverty level or below. Many of them children. Yet, you don't see shows about those issues....just more about Anna, Howard K, and Birkhead...and Why do multi-millionaires like Angelina and Brad adopt kids from around the world but not children from here in America. If our adoption system is so bad here, why don't Angelina and Brad and Madonna use their influence to fix the madness here instead of adopting kids from around the world. I have always believed in taking care of your own first...and why do we clamor for more about Britney, Lindsey, and Paris. What do they offer the world? Why am I suppose to care about them again? Or the husband who cut his wife in half? Why is that news? How does that story better my life or increase my knowledge of the world? Remember the astronaut story that had everyone riveted until Anna died? Forgot about her didn't ya! Why do we care about an airhead-blonde stripper, who had nothing to really offer the world? True, her son tragically died, but so did hundred of thousands of other children. Is our sympathy and concern for the strung-out stripper and her family our way of caring about the insignificant, innocent children who die every minute of every day without notice, without fanfare? Think of all the money the cable networks and the regular channels have made selling Anna Nicole Smith. I wonder how many children the money could have saved from dying...stop watching the Anna disaster...stop the madness...force television and cable to cover stories that matter....not human train wrecks...not strung out strippers....think of how many children died while you were reading this. Hope you didn't miss the latest crumb about Anna....

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