Media coverage of Charlie Sheen

This makes a good point which I really do believe. As much hand-wringing as there is about "the media" devoting all its time to celebrity stories, it's really only certain sectors of "the media" that focus on this stuff. It's also a sector that makes money, attracts eyeballs and ratings, moves rack sales, what have you. This stuff doesn't exist because nobody's buying it.

One thing the Internet does very well is make news far more self-selecting, and people self-select a lot garbage. There is a wealth of information available for folks to educate themselves and they now more than ever willfully choose not to.

 

Disagree on some thoughts here. The stuff exists because Sheen is making an ass of himself daily. If he were to STFU tomorrow, he'd drop off the radar until CBS makes a decision about his employment.

The people following him on Twitter might be amused now, but they'll get bored and move on to the next loudmouth.

 

Only thing at work here is that Charlie Sheen craves attention, and he's getting it on a silver platter. It's a win-win for Sheen and the media lapping it up.

 

Sirs, Madames,

I think there's a story here but not the story that should be told. How fit is this guy to be around children, even his own? Pattern of drug use (notwithstanding the supposedly clean test). History of threats, possibly violence. How does he have any access to kids at all? And what are the families of the "princesses" thinking about their arrangement/well-being? I guess if your daughter is a porn star you grow a thick skin but sheesh.

YHS, etc

 

People magazine does, in fact, have a story online with the mother of Bree Olson, expressing her concern over the arrangement.

Admittedly, I kind of laughed at the notion that the star of "Big Tit Brotha Lovers 10" and "Tinker With My Stinker" was suddenly at risk because she shacked up with a sitcom star who may have a drug problem.

 

I guess I'm not getting the whole laughalot factor in addiction and mental disease. People on Facebook seem to think this is the funniest thing since Groucho. At least when Mel Gibson freaked, there might have been a captive audience but there wasn't a sense it was being choreographed and milked from a fat teat. Maybe at some point when the cameras stop rolling and people begin to set this aside, and it's no longer so riotously funny, he's going to have a reflective moment and ask what the fuck is happening to himself.

 

Tweet of the Day (from Andy Borowitz): Charlie Sheen - Money = Guy Barking on Street Corner

 

They're GODDESSES. Get it straight!

 

Variety/Fox Sports blogger Brian Lowry was on the "Loose Cannons" show on Fox Sports Radio this afternoon to defend his column where he bashed sports talk radio in general (and that show in particular) for coddling and enabling Charlie Sheen every time "Charlie from Malibu" calls to ramble for a bit.

It didn't go well. One side came off looking better than the other. Here's a hint: it wasn't the side backed by a guy with a ZZ Top beard and a Cossack hat.

 

That really did not go well.

Love the parting shot from Lowry, though. Nicely done.

 

I thought this was one of the few good pieces about this whole ridiculous situation: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/opinion/04holmes.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB.