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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 576036"><p>Hoax, I just want to make it clear: I wasn't getting on my soapbox with you. Just commenting on a society of which I am a part. Year ago, people complained about newspapers covering too many non stories and burying the real news on page 20. So newspapers tried to strike a balance. However, when the internet finally became a part of everyone's lives, the newspapers paid(and continue to pay) the search engine companies to find out what people are looking at. And lo and behold, they found people were looking at all the fluff for the most part. Now they just give people what they know they want, not what they claim they want.</p><p></p><p>I have a yahoo email account. To access it, I have to go to yahoo.com and be exposed to teaser stories. And to my discredit, I click the links more often than I care to admit. The latest click I hit was "Saved by the bell reunion leaves two actors out" I clicked to see who they left out: Poor Screech and Mr. Belding. </p><p>By the way, Saved by the Bell was a television show in the 90s for teenagers that i watched as a young 20 something in a not so apparent effort to relive my high school days. </p><p> To further elucidate about TMZ, the show is about celebrities but it also about the staff and paparazzi on the show. They don't just record a celebrity leaving a restaurant, they interfere and become part of the story badgering the celebrity with inane questions. Its mindless garbage but I see it in passing at times and get hooked for five minutes before I say "enough". </p><p></p><p>As i get older, I think I am becoming more discriminating but when I read the paper, I do tend to read the gossip before I read the harder stuff. </p><p>Shame on me!<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/knockedout.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":knockedout:" title="Knockedout :knockedout:" data-shortname=":knockedout:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 576036"] Hoax, I just want to make it clear: I wasn't getting on my soapbox with you. Just commenting on a society of which I am a part. Year ago, people complained about newspapers covering too many non stories and burying the real news on page 20. So newspapers tried to strike a balance. However, when the internet finally became a part of everyone's lives, the newspapers paid(and continue to pay) the search engine companies to find out what people are looking at. And lo and behold, they found people were looking at all the fluff for the most part. Now they just give people what they know they want, not what they claim they want. I have a yahoo email account. To access it, I have to go to yahoo.com and be exposed to teaser stories. And to my discredit, I click the links more often than I care to admit. The latest click I hit was "Saved by the bell reunion leaves two actors out" I clicked to see who they left out: Poor Screech and Mr. Belding. By the way, Saved by the Bell was a television show in the 90s for teenagers that i watched as a young 20 something in a not so apparent effort to relive my high school days. To further elucidate about TMZ, the show is about celebrities but it also about the staff and paparazzi on the show. They don't just record a celebrity leaving a restaurant, they interfere and become part of the story badgering the celebrity with inane questions. Its mindless garbage but I see it in passing at times and get hooked for five minutes before I say "enough". As i get older, I think I am becoming more discriminating but when I read the paper, I do tend to read the gossip before I read the harder stuff. Shame on me!:knockedout: [/QUOTE]
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