CNN dumps Michael Moore for Paris Hilton

Yesterday, CNN proudly announced that it has scored the first post-jail interview with Paris Hilton. To make room for Paris on Wednesday, CNN canceled its interview with Michael Moore about his new health care documentary SiCKO:

Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton will give her first post-jail interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday, the show’s spokeswoman said on Saturday.

“She will be on for the hour,” Bridget Leininger told Reuters. “We had (filmmaker) Michael Moore originally scheduled for that time.”

CNN, the “most trusted name in Paris news,” continues to sink to new lows in its “assault on reason.” Hilton is the latest “serial obsession,” though the network recently hired a reporter devoted to “covering things like Britney, as well as the Michael Jackson memorabilia.” Now CNN has ditched coverage of America’s broken health care system in favor of an hour-long interview of an incarcerated socialite.

ThinkProgress spoke with Moore’s team, who confirmed that CNN has not yet rescheduled the interview. SiCKO, which opens nationwide this Friday, sheds light on the health care crisis that the media covers poorly, when it covers it at all.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/king-paris-moore/




Because why talk about the state of the United States healthcare system when we can see what a spoiled, rich girl famous for being famous is going to wear?

Oi,Tallytown Pricks!

Jonathan's 25th Birthday Dinner*

Where: Shenanigan's Irish Pub
When: Tomorrow, June 28, 2007, Thursday, 7:30p.m.
Why: It's his Silver Birthday, 25th!



Be there or, well, more tasty whiskey and bread pudding for the rest of us!



*(This celebration not to be confused with the Beki and Deric Departure Dinner at Shenanigan's on Saturday July 7,2007. More details to follow on that most somber of events.)