Like many people of my generation and those surrounding, one of the first things I do in the morning is walk to my home office and turn on the computer. Then, with coffee and breakfast in hand, I start going through my bookmarked sites to find out what I missed of the world during those seven or eight hours the computer was off and I slept.
CNN.com to find out how Hilary and Obama are doing;
BBC.com to find out how the rest of the world is doing;
BILLBOARD.com to find out what the music celebs are up to;
EONLINE.com to find out what the movie celebs are up to;
and finally...
PEREZHILTON.com to see whose misfortunes 'merit' ridicule that morning.
Add to that the perusal of Facebook, MySpace, a few general topic message boards and even a stop at http://bb9dish.blogspot.com/ to find out what's been happening on the live feeds of this season's Big Brother reality show, and I think I have everything pretty well covered. It's also fairly safe to say I know a little about a lot and a lot about little.
But these are the times we live in; an information age so powerful and rapidly changing that to keep up, you have to scan rather than read. This subsequently forces you to try and form educated opinions with little or no retained facts. That's probably why we are now so easily manipulated as a society. Forming personal opinions has become difficult, due to lack of information absorption; we rely on the opinions of third parties to make our minds up for us. If Perez says it's so, who are we to argue? Let's all get on the hate train. The word 'sheep' comes to mind.
Take the Ashlee Simpson / Saturday Night Live incident that happened a little more than two years ago as an example. During a 'Live' performance on the renowned NBC comedy show, Ashlee Simpson experienced some technical difficulties making it seem as though she was lip-syncing through her performance; a situation that was totally blown out of proportion by the media and mares her career to this day.
According to CRMAV.com - for music professionals, "Most television performances are really just recorded sessions for the most part. Getting a good live sound for 1 song is not really something most performers, artist, technicians and even television shows want to invest in."
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