Celebrities We're Tired of Hearing About: Sasha Smith

Americans love pop culture and drama. I am one of them. If we stopped talking about these people what would we watch on Oprah or Larry King? We are intrigued with scandal or anything that goes against the grain.

Sarah Palin is the all-American story that folks love to hear. Virtually an unknown who became known in record time, she joined John McCain and his crew and ran a campaign that they thought they would win, and then they lost. Sarah Palin didn't win the Vice Presidency but she won the American people over with her drama-filled personality and family. She was the face of the party that was preaching abstinence in schools but ended up with a pregnant, unwed, high school daughter. She vowed that her daughter Bristol Palin, and Bristol's baby's father Levi Johnston would be finishing school and getting married. Before we knew it, Levi couldn't see his child anymore and was exiled from the Palin's home. He was soon going on the talk show circuits telling his story and sharing his version of the Palin household. How could you not want to keep watching? Everyone wants to know the dirt especially on the person who didn't win. We want to know the truth behind the rumors that she was a vixenella. People always want to know the unknown and Levi Johnston was giving that story to us -whether it's true or not. It's a story from someone who was in the inner circle at one point and was closer to Palin than us.

This is no different for Carrie Prejean or Nadaya Suelman. Everyone loves to hate folks that don't fit into the "American dream" or the norm, whether this means having recorded your most private moments or having more than the 2.5 kids that we should be having. Americans are brought up to stick within what socially constructed social norms are and if they don't we judge, we ridicule, and we obsess.

I do think there are much more important news stories that should be aired for our country to see and that we can save these as secondary stories and not as the primary news feature for the public to view. I guess it's pretty sad that Americans have become complacent but I think they also realize that the news media is controlled by a small handful who choose to show certain coverage. They control what we see and how we see it.

At the end of the day, if you want to real news you have to seek it out on your own. Thank goodness for the internet.

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