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Paris Burning
Friday, June 29, 2007  Send to a friend
Respect to Mika Brzezinski, co-presenter of MSNBC's breakfast show in the US, who was so sickened by her station leading news bulletins with yet another story about Paris Hilton, rather than news events in Iraq and Washington, that she refused to read the intro and even attempted to set fire to and shred her script live on air. Check out the YouTube clip HERE. As protests against the dumbing down of news in favour of Heat-style reality TV gloop go, it was one which will stick in the memory far more than a hundred wordy op-ed pieces...
However, a couple of questions remain unanswered. Given stringent health and safety regulations in the US, how likely is it that news anchors would just happen to have a dangerous shredder and indeed a fag-lighter near the main studio desk? I'm not suggesting this was a fix, but hey MSNBC has got a huge dollop of global publicity out of it, thanks in part to YouTube. I don't think I'm alone in never having heard of Mika Brzezinski. I won't forget her in a hurry now...
Posted by James Silver - On Friday, June 29, 2007
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