Too Much Anna Nicole Smith

As we've all heard by now, Anna Nicole Smith has died. You can't go to a single news source (be it paper, internet, or TV) without hearing about her death. Her passing has generated a ton of media traffic and every single reporter is talking about it. I see her picture wherever I click to while on CNN, Yahoo, etc.

I'm frankly tired of hearing about her. The media is treating her as if she was some terrific person who died in the prime of her life. In reality, many of them (myself included) sneered when her name was mentioned and thought of her as a major annoyance. She hadn't done anything to deserve praise or "oohs and ahhs." If anything, she was the epitome of what happens when you (pardon the phrase) take a girl out of a trailer park and swathe her in millions. I hardly think anyone would consider anything she'd done as admirable.

She's received more media blitz than when a president passes away. Now, c'mon, isn't that saying something is completely wrong with our value system? If a diplomat or president (or someone else who's done something to better society) dies, he doesn't recieve nearly as much attention as this. We keep hearing all these statements from PETA (and I will sneer at this particular name since I think that they are just a bunch of radicals who bully their way into everything), celebrities, etc who claim they knew her well and loved her. If they knew her so well and were such good acquaintances, why hadn't they spoken up before now? We hadn't heard a single statement from one of them during all of Anna's tumultuous times (death of J. Howard Marshall, who-is-the-daddy-scandal, death of her son, etc.) Why now? The reason they speak up now is because it gives these clingers a chance for some media attention (again, our media is giving way too much airtime to this story.)

Bottom line: move on. This story was noteworthy for all of about 5 minutes. There are plenty of other things happening in the world which are more important.