Friday, February 15, 2013

Follow the shit...

Following the money would have led to the information about cost cutting in ship construction. But hey, that's good for 10 viewers - tops! We need sensation! outrage! injury! or death! But in a pinch, shit will do. The official cringeometer even cringed listening to Ashleigh Banfield trying to get kids to cry on a cell-phone call to their mothers on land somewhere. You could hear the glee in her voice as she tried to scrape a few tears from any passenger who could be duped into spilling stories of a floating urinarium, with poop on the poop deck, and red bags of it sitting in the hallways, waiting for pick-up.

Ashleigh Banfield is neither the cause, nor the queen of this misfire - nor the only one misfiring. This is just the modern tabloid food-fight being fought by the lowest of the low trying to become the highest of the high.

No comments: