Let's see……… The Ducks won the cup last nite; The G8 Summit meeting is wrapping up in Germany; Those silly North Koreans are up to their shenanigans again by test firing missiles; Paris Hilton's out of jail early……..

WAIT A MINUTE! …………PARIS HILTON'S OUT OF JAIL?!?!

That's right folks. She's made the cover of The New York Times; The Toronto Star (video, no less); The Washington Post (obviously) The London Daily Mail; The Australian Daily News (blaring headlines); and probably just about every daily you care to read.

Jesus, even the supposedly respectable Guardian Unlimited has an article on the front page.

I suspect the only reason why she isn't staring back at you from the cover of Japan's Asahi Shimbun, or The China Daily News, is because they're just crawling out of bed, and have yet to get the 'exciting' news over there! Boy, are they in for a shock!

There's no news like no news.

We're suckers.

We forget that news agencies are in business to make a buck first, and then maybe, provide a public service. Obviously, Paris Hilton sells news papers.

I personally don't know shit about her, other than hearing about that time a few years ago when some home movie was released on the net showing her giving a blowjob to her then boyfriend. I have yet to see it.

Honestly.

Well….. thanks to the world press, we can all get our own little (simulated) blowjobs from her.

I used to really, really, hate record company people. I thought they were all scumbags just trying to leech money out of hapless musicians, -maybe I was right.

I'd get pissed drunk when I heard that there was 'record company people' in the audience -just to fuck everything up.

In short, I was my own worst enemy. (Not sure if I've changed much)

Then one day, it occurred to me: Record company people  are really just business people, trying to make a buck off of something they -hopefully- like, wheras, musicians were doing something they liked, and trying to make a living off of it.

TA-DAAA! the light-bulb came on, sort of.

Of course, by then I had pretty much fucked things up to the point where most 'industry' people thought we were impossible to deal with.

I guess, what I'm trying to say here -through lame personal experiences- is Never Underestimate The Power Of The Almighty Dollar.

It's the driving force behind everything.

We see news mastheads like 'Canada's most trusted name in news'; 'All the news that's fit to print'; and 'The worlds leader in reliabile news,' when actually what they should probably be using are slogans like:

"The Toronto Sun. -We hardly ever use words with more than five letters in them."

"The L.A. Times. -Occasionally we get it right!"

"La Republique. -The cheque's in the mail!"

"The Hanoi Star Register. -We promise not to come in your……….. "(o.k. enough already. Even I think I'm going just a little too far….)

………….Then again, they wouldn't be writing so much about such garbage if we didn't keep asking for it.

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