Can We Really Blame The Media?

This is my first time blogging so I am not really sure how to start this off. I guess I will start by just giving some of my thoughts on the media and what it covers. Lately i have been hearing allot of people complain about the topics that are covered on the news. These complaints consist of the fact that there was way more news coverage on the death of Michael Jackson and his funeral than there has been on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. This is a very valid point that says a great deal about our media and even our country. It shows that the majority of the American public care more about the latest celebrity to be locked up for driving under the influence than they do about many much more crucial issues. I agree that this is extremely frustrating, especially to those who care more about what is going on in the world than about Paris Hilton's lost Yorkie, but who is to really the one to blame? I was recently on both the Fox and CNN websites and noticed that a large majority of the headlines dealt with a some sort of T.V. Celebrity, or music icon. I don't think that all of the blame for this problem can be put on the networks. The main goal of these stations is to bring home a paycheck so they can pay their monthly bills, and to best accomplish this goal they have to keep up with the other networks in ratings. It is not the medias job to keep us perfectly informed about world issues, it is there job to keep us entertained so we will continue to watch. If what keeps us entertained is Lindsey Lohan's cocaine and Mel Gibson's drunken racial slurs than that is what we will continue to get.