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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Tiger Woods, etc.: Who friggin' cares?
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Please tell me I’m not the only person who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Tiger Woods’ car wreck, facial cuts, marital problems or — gasp! — possible affairs. Once again, Americans act all shocked and horrified (and titillated, but that’s never said out loud) that a celeb they admire is a human being. It’s one of our weirdest cultural traits, and people around the world who study such odd habits have remarked on Americans’ tendency to get seriously jacked up about celebs’ private lives — not that other countries don’t do it, but apparently nothing like the way we do it. And it’s always something. Before Tiger, it was who’s gonna be the new Oprah? Or it’s the two bozos who crashed Pres. Obama’s state dinner, or Levi Johnston’s Playgirl pictures, and before that, an endless stream of blather about two of the least interesting people on earth, Jon and Kate Whatstheirname. As Gail Collins opines in the New York Times, maybe it’s because the big news stories these days are all incredibly depressing (Afghanistan, anyone?), but the number of B.S. stories about celebs’ dirty laundry seems to rising even faster than the unemployment rate.
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