WHEN DID BAD TV SHOWS BECOME NEWS?
Our friends over at Project Censored have released their list of the year’s Junk Food News – stories which, they say, are the most frivolous and over-reported news items of the year, news which fills the airwaves and newsstands “with celebrity gossip and meaningless coverage of the unimportant.” This year’s Junk Food News leaders are Joe Millionaire, Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, American Idol, Jennifer Lopez, Martha Stewart, and The Osbournes. “Apparently times have changed ande ther is less news to inform the citizens of our democracy about,” says the Junk Food News report, “or at the ver least there is apparently more time available in the mainstrem media for the discussion of frivolous TV hype.” You can read the entire report at www.projectcensored.org. OF COURSE, THERE’S A 50 PER CENT CHANCE THAT HE’S WRONG British scientist Martin Rees claims that there is now a 50 per cent chance that some kind of apocalyptic disaster will be hitting planet Earth in the near future. His new boo
