Do I understand the Oprah Winfrey phenomenon? Absolutely, positively not. I do not understand many of the things that get people to become fixated on a person or a television show or why people who have little talent become the most popular people in pop culture. I started thinking about this today as I watched Dr. Phil discuss parenting. I would take Lucy’s advice from the peanuts before I would listen to Dr. Phil.
David Letterman has never been funny, yet he gets 6 million people to watch his show every night.
Tim McCarver from Fox Sports is the second worst baseball announcer on television. Joe Morgan from ESPN is without a doubt the worst. How these two individuals are allowed in our living rooms is just amazing.
Wanda Syke’s has a new television show coming out on TBS. Can anyone remember the last time she did anything worth watching? Yeah, me neither.
Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, and The Kardashians, shall I say any more?
How about how Celebrity Rehab? Can you imagine watching a show about D-list actors who spend most of the day wondering why they are where they are? I was a ball player before I was a professor, I could have just packed it in when my ball playing days were over, but I decided to get a better education instead of doing drugs and putting on weight to get on Celebrity Fat Camp. Oh, god!
Bruce Jenner was an Olympic hero; Brody Jenner is a no talent reality “star”. Better thank dad for all of those Wheaties boxes he appeared on.
Wesley Snipes was an actor with a great career until he took on Uncle Sam and was charged with tax evasion charges. Now he just plays in B-movies and his once budding career is a thing of the past. People now only care about his fall and never care about the actor, why?
Brittany Spears is a talented performer and she is a train wreck of a person. Lindsey Lohan is a talented actress and just as big a train wreck, if not worse. They let their lives personal struggles get in the way of their careers. Yet we watch them intently become the anti media darlings for the wrong reasons.
Jose Canseco was the first 40 homerun and 40 stolen base man in Major League Baseball history. We no longer speak of his five hundred home runs; we only speak of his steroid use and his Celebrity Boxing. Canseco’s book, Juiced, outed the steroid use in professional sports and put baseball into the limelight for all the wrong reasons. Not until the congressional hearings was baseball’s steroid use handled in baseball. Canseco was right on the money with his steroid allegations, but off the mark with his career.
We are fixated on the rise and fall of individuals and it is a terrible shame when a former star becomes the punch line for late night television jokes. Maybe if we decided to read the classics, watch National Geographic specials, or better yet, worry about our own lives; we can spend less time reading Star magazine and more time being productive every day.
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