I’m actually embarrassed to be posting this but it’s so ridiculous I simply couldn’t resist. Here’s proof that Hollywood exists inside a bubble from which light can get out but no light can get in.
It is, unquestionably, one of the most important stories of our time…
“One of the most important stories of our time.” And what do you think that might be? If I had first seen that sentence without the headline and the pictures my guess would have been the events in the Middle East. But no, there’s something more important than that.
…Justin Bieber’s decision to cut his gloriously swooping hairstyle into a close-cropped new ‘do, and the social ramifications thereof.
Wow. That just makes my head spin, trying imagine the kind of person who would write something like that. But then, I’m the kind of person who, for months, every time I signed in to Twitter, kept wondering “Who the hell is Justin Bieber and why is he still trending?”
Yeah, I was 13 once myself but even then I think I had a more realistic concept of the relative importance of things.
February 24th, 2011 - 2:13 pm
I really hope whoever wrote that first line (about “most important story”) intended it with all the irony it deserves.
I remember when I was a kid, the “BREAKING NEWS” alert on television was reserved for really huge things, like wars breaking out or world leaders being shot. Now it seems it’s trotted out for every little thing. And yet, I still get a tiny adrenaline spike when I see it…because I think back to seeing the coverage of Reagan being shot or the Challenger blowing up. I expect “BREAKING NEWS” to be momentous news, not banal news.
February 24th, 2011 - 5:11 pm
What a trouble free world we live in if one of the most important stories of our time is anyone getting a new hairstyle.
February 25th, 2011 - 9:25 am
It’s MTV. I’m pretty sure they’re being snarky.