Does todays celebrity culture distract us from whats really important?
Her glare burned through the sleepless fog that blanketed my head. “How did we miss this?” my former managing editor asked, waving a newspaper at me. My mind raced, still exhausted from working the late shift the previous day. Did something big happen just after the midnight deadline? I had checked out the competing papers that morning for any missed scoops, as was my habit in my early years of reporting. There were none. Whatever she was mad about was literally news to me. “Why isn’t there a story about Jason Priestley’s car accident on the front page?” she asked. “Or at least a teaser!” As my coffee went to work, I vaguely remembered a spot on CNN about the former Beverly Hills 90210 actor crashing his car into a wall at the Kentucky Speedway. That was why she was angry with me? “Because it’s not news,” I replied, earning myself an even worse death glare. I’m reminded of this exchange every few years, when a big celebrity news story breaks. One of the best examples was May 27, 2006,
