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Frontiers of Freedom Article: “Paris Hilton a Judicious Hissy Fit & Media Made Circus”- There are problems with Paris Hilton’s treatment, but it is the unfairness of it – not the fact that there is too much coverage. She should go home. Read it Here

Read the Frontiers of Freedom - “The Ten Tenets.”

For a more detailed legal argument read US Attorney Jonna Spilbor’s report: “The Fame and Misfortune of Celebrity: Why Paris Hilton does not belong behind bars”Â

 An extra outtake:

Tony Blair in Slate: After asserting early on that a “free media is a vital part of a free society,” and that his “reflection is not about ‘blaming’ anyone,” Blair gets busy disdaining the freeness of the free media—that is, media that expresses itself in ways that he does not approve—and blaming the responsible parties for the decline of the press

He much prefers the old order, in which information could be more easily managed by the government.” Read more here

Offline 

Demise of Print a Tad exaggerated - NZ Herald

Online 

Nielsen showed APN’s nzherald.co.nz/news site ahead of Fairfax’s stuff.co.nz/news in May by 10,000 domestic unique browsers. Herald at 507,770 hits compared to Stuff’s 496,658.

Tv3.co.nz/news is New Zealand’s third most preferred source of online news with 200,267 hits, followed by independent site, scoop.co.nz on 188,009 and State broadcaster tvnz.co.nz/news on 184,573.

• Pour $$$ into Digital
• Make WSJ Free
• Stop Google owning the World (On that note check out Google Gears)

Read the Interview in the WSJ Here

And an old New Yorker archive from 2003 - Eleven pages on all you wanted to know about Dow Jones and the Bancroft Family. The Annals of Communication: Family Business

Customer consultation (Thanks Stuart - i promise i will always tell you when you have spinach in your teeth) tells me my posts of late have been somewhat intellectually heavy..

Associated Press a few months ago requested no articles were printed on the hermit-esque heiress for 24 Hours - The result of this social experiment gone awry, 3 times as many articles on “no articles on paris”!

Same story with Paris issuing a please issue no press release’s press release.

An outtake from this weeks release:

“I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world.”

News Search - Paris Hilton - 1,700 News Articles
News Search- Iraq War - 157 News Articles

Maybe Paris really is over all the drama and noise - the media cannot just be told though, not to mention the public - devouring them as if they were consumables - soaking up every last drop of information.

In 2003, NEW SCIENTIST magazine reported that one-third of Americans were suffering from something it called “celebrity-worship syndrome”, which it abbreviated as “CWS”. Houran, the Psychologist behind the research - “It’s a form of social bonding, stress reduction, escapism and entertainment. At low levels, people tend to be happier, more personable and more outgoing.” While he shies from the idea of a “syndrome”, Houran concedes that at higher levels, celebrity worship has been linked with depression, anxiety, body-image problems and addiction.

Was John Lennon on to something - the new religion? MTV’s I Want a Famous Face - What is up with that!

More later.