Lets cover real news

As we all know on Thursday February 8th Anna Nicole Smith passed away. Don't get me wrong, any one passing away is a sad tragic event. Especially see she was young and does have an infant child. But why is it special, and why is it a news story that she passed away. A) No matter what you say she is NOT famous. She never did anything except mary a rich old man and then attempt to inherit his fortune. She never made movies, was never on t.v., she never made an album, never did anything that would have turned her into a celebrity. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel alone had 61 death notices in the paper on Thursday, that would correlate into thousands of deaths across the country that day. Why make such special notice of her? MSNBC.com had her death as their main story for the majority of the day on Thursday, every news channel covered the story at night, and the Today on Friday morning started their broadcast with that story.

There are so many things occurring in the course of the day that need to covered so people who are oblivious to them occurring can get knowledge of them. Stories such as the mass genocides in Africa, health care in America, education reform, the poverty levels, a little thing called Iraq and Iran, and many other issues that actually constitute a news story. Not someone who has contributed nothing to society except a few punch lines for late night television.

Our lovely paper the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Saturday had an article about the death of Anna Nicole Smith and other "tragic blonds." The article compared her to Marilyn Monroe and Princess Dianne. Now come on thats more than a stretch. Monroe actually contributed to entertainment and was an actual celebrity. Plus she had "relationships" with some pretty powerful people of the era. Princess Dianne was more than just a celebrity; she did many many humanitarian things for people the world over and actually made a difference. She actually did died tragically as a cause of paparazzi pursuit and a drunk limo driver.

So lets cover actuall news stories that people the world over need to hear about because God knows people are going to actually pick up the paper or magazine and read about real issues. Lets also start defining the line between a tragic death and someone just dying. Just checked MSNBC.com a minute ago and one of their top stories was still about the aftermath of Anna Nicole Smith's death. I mean what "aftermath?"