Declining to Be Taken Seriously
There is no reason in the world for the LA Times to have run this piece in yesterday's paper.
Is there anyone who believes that an article about women undergoing plastic surgery to their private parts in an effort to emulate porn stars is newsworthy, uplifting, useful or even relevant to 99.9% of the reading public?
All it succeeds in doing is coarsening the tenor of our public conversation.
Surely even The Times can do better.
Is there anyone who believes that an article about women undergoing plastic surgery to their private parts in an effort to emulate porn stars is newsworthy, uplifting, useful or even relevant to 99.9% of the reading public?
All it succeeds in doing is coarsening the tenor of our public conversation.
Surely even The Times can do better.
posted by LadybugUSA at 10:00 AM
5 Comments:
Disgusting! Evidently the media are finding it necessary to imitate tabloids to gain circulation, even if that means catering to the perpetually adolescent. But that market has been the focus of the 'entertainment' industry for a long time, so perhaps they're just catching up with their peers.
Carol, I agree with everything you said, except the last sentence.
800 procedures a year is a trend? What I object to in the article is the shoddy journalism worthy more of extreme tabloids than a major "serious" newspaper. The journalist claims that there is no data. Yes there is, but it would not look good for the story.
In case anyone wants to look at the cosmetic surgery stats, the url is http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8567091&postID=114235939552367914 that I got via Robot Wisdom.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released stats today. See:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/asop-ps031506.php
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