This Is The Way The World Ends

I love the news. Always have; always will. I just have to know what's going on. I am constantly looking for scraps of information to read.

I was just poking around the Internet, Yahoo to be exact, and I noticed the following headline - Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?

The article was fascinating. It's a scenario that most of us are well aware of. Humans have drastically changed the environment to the extent that many species are now on the brink of extinction. It looks like the situation is not going to improve.

This article started me wondering how other people thought about the state of the Earth. Here we are, perched on the precipice of major upheaval. What are we going to do? The answer to my question was not very far away.

To the bottom left was a hyperlink to another article. The title was "Out the Door." It was about Kara DioGuardi leaving 'American Idol' and it got me thinking.

I wondered how many people would click on the American Idol story and not the one on the mass extinction threat. The whole world could be falling apart and people seem to care more about Jon and Kate or Lindsay Lohan. When was the last time you went to the supermarket checkout and saw a magazine that didn't tell how somebody lost 15 pounds in one week? When was the last time you saw something that really mattered?

I guess the only way serious news can get more attention is if we turn it into a reality show. Hold on! Aren't things like the environment more real than reality shows? Maybe the way BP can mend fences with the American public is to appear on "Dancing with the Stars."