Anna Nicole Smith

With a title like that you'd be crazy to not stop and read! (As I roll my eyes...) However, for the past day and a half I've seen this woman's face more than I can count. In fact to be quite honest, other than knowing her as the woman, 26, who married an 89-year old billionaire because she was supposedly "attracted to his liver spots", I don't know much about her. Yet, any information I may want to know about Smith is extremely accessible due to her sudden death yesterday. Now, I'm not here to harp on her publicity in any way. I believe it is perfectly okay and normal for the media to be covering the story on her death considering she was somewhat of an icon. However, at 10:00 this morning I turned on the television to find eight channels covering this story, including the story being all over the Internet. Was absolutely nothing else as important going on in our nation, or even world that needed to be covered? Because as I turn on the television now, I come across five channels still covering the story. Obviously, I haven't been lounging in front of the television all morning to know what other stories were, which I'm sure, covered, and as I stated before please don't think I'm writing this in regards to her actual death or her as a person. I'm just stunned at how the media has focused in so intensely on it. What triggered my thoughts on this was something Dr. Rudd mentioned in class after viewing the clip of the news from Wednesday morning. Botox injections took the limelight over recent levy issues within education. I truly cannot find the reason for this to be overshadowing education, or even why it is "LIVE" on the news in the first place. I turn on the news to be informed and updated, however I want to be informed on what is truly beneficial to me. Sure Botox may be in 20 years, but I'm interested in knowing of events that may affect me, my life, and the things around me, not watching reality television, if I want that I'll flip to MTV.