Is it only felons who can't benefit financially from their crimes?  I guess an interview about jail time is different from benefiting from a crime - that landed you in jail.

I'm so confused!

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Sadly, this type of thing used to be fit to only print in tabloids...now it's "mainstream".

I hope NBC's sponsors and shareholders are paying attention. If that's what they want to spend their money on, then I guess we have to let the free market ride...it's just a sad commentary on today's society valuing the antics of an insignificant spoiled girl over other items that are more worth-while or important.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson

Does anyone else think there is a moral obligation as a journalist to report the news and not buy it? I think they outlawed this a while back, it's called PAYOLA!

Morals....? Who needs those?

NBC has no class.  They'll stop at nothing short of paying a criminal for airtime.  i won't watch it!!

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Take it easy!  We're not making a western here.
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Great point Tim on the money spent like 2 million for celebrity fluff instead of digging up the news. Now onto my crowing.

Why pay for Paris to be interviewed, how about 1 million for the LA City Attourney and his wife, who has been driving on a suspended license and crashing a city owned vehicle with a 9 year old bench warrant for her arrest, and neither had insurance for some time ?

LOL - Gee, that was big of you to do those interviews hammering Sheriff Baca - and screaming Paris needs to go to prison to pay for her crimes....

[ Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo's wife has an outstanding warrant for her arrest for failing to appear in court nearly nine years ago on charges of driving without insurance, with a suspended license and in an unregistered car, court records and officials confirmed Tuesday.
Michelle Delgadillo's scofflaw status was yet another embarrassing development for the city's top prosecutor, who Monday disclosed that he had periodically let his wife drive his city-owned vehicle on a suspended license for personal errands.
In 2004, she had an accident while driving her husband's city-assigned GMC Yukon, which was repaired at taxpayer expense.

After ducking the issue for days, Delgadillo, who presides over the nation's third-largest municipal law office, held a news conference Monday to say that he was reimbursing the city for the $1,222 repair. He also acknowledged that he did not realize that he himself had driven as an uninsured motorist for about a year, while his wife had driven without insurance for more than two years.]

Yes, Paris is very, very far above the law.

LOL

Doesn't it suck when I'm sooooooooo correct. I'd hate me too.

i think you have to have fluff in the news because if we don't, people will end up shooting themselvse in the head over the concentration of real news. 1 mill is the market value, as so many free market conservatives love, for the paris hilton interview as it will garner more than that in ads. so, from an economic point of view, it's a perfectly legitimate purchase supply/demand wise. for those who want to take a break from real issues, it's what we do in the world. we watch fluff. EVERYONE does. it's just a matter of the dose each takes it.