How do you walk past those tabloids at the check-out stand without looking at them? It's tough! I try and try and still those cellulite photos draw me in. It feels voyeuristic to me, and doomed to a nasty end... like a moth to a flame. Disasters on TV news do that to me too. The BP oil spill last year, the devastation of tornado alley this spring, floods just about anywhere near a river these days. Can't turn them off. But tabloids are a man-made disaster of immense proportions careening out of control, and when will it end?
In Britain, the tabloids have taken to hacking into dead peoples cell phone records, all in the name of selling their rags. Selling advertising space that is. Agonizing parents thinking their children are still alive are given false hope because their phones are still being accessed. Kidnapped children, dead soldiers. Haunting alcohol and drug addled LA stars is one thing, but tormenting parents of dead children? Now I've heard that one such rag will shut it's doors. Out of shame or to avoid the big lawsuit headed it's way?
I also hear tell that one such "newspaper" had the gall to comment on the the wardrobe of the Duchess of Cambridge... as if it is a fashion faux pas to wear the same pair of jeans 3 times in public on a 10 day trip to North America. I'd call that smart packing! They get away with preying on everyones' insecurities. If they are going to publish and judge the "swimsuit worthiness" of some of the most photographed stars in the world... just where does that leave the rest of us poor slobs? Better buy those papers and check out the latest diets? Wrong! The only way they will ever go away is if we STOP BUYING THEM! (Spread the word!) Somebody buys them... and as much as I am bored at the checkout stand and can't look away, it's not me. Time to educate our youth (and our mothers and friends) about how to turn a blind eye. These newspapers have as much power as we give them, and if they aren't selling, their advertising revenues will dry up. So vote with your pocketbooks. Resist. Ignore. Save.
