Paris Hilton the Link Magnet

September 18th, 2006

A bit of irony in this one, as this blog’s entry on Paris Hilton got me to click on the link, read the article, and now comment on it myself. The basic crux of it is that she’s great at getting attention, and once she has attention she is shameless about advertising products. Tied into this is the idea that even a bad publicity is not damaging if it builds awareness.

There’s humor in a celebrity train wreck like bad publicity in the form of Mel Gibson, but it seems a sly opportunist would somehow turn it into a positive. I think a big part of it is a sense of humor and maintaining the Pee-Wee Herman type attitude “I meant to do that.”

I think it’s utterly amazing that Paris could emerge unscathed through all the night-vision-home-movies and either she’s completely vapid or some sort of marketing genius. Seeing how I’m presently wasting time commenting on her, in a shameless attempt to promote this blog, I’m afraid it’s the latter.

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