NBC to Paris: A Million for Your Thoughts?

Scathing. If you don’t review the interview I will lose all respect for you as a humorous individual.

Sad – if this is true then I lost my bet! I bet a friend that Diane Sawyer was going to do the post-jail Paris interview! Oh well…

This is a new low for America. The only time it will stop is when “journalists” stop satifying the public’s appetite for this kind of drivel. How much more can the news get dumbed down?

Howard Beale is alive and well at NBC

Why is Miss Paris Hilton getting $1 million for an inteview, just because she went to jail for 23 days? What about other’s who have been in the same category. Do those people get the same instant famous? Well, i think it is because of you TV networks that is why these young rich and famous girls and boys are getting away with the law. These wrongful people should not be viewed as heroes, but needs to be punished if they break the law. I think Paris Hilton should not be ginen a heroes welcome and the interview should not be held. At least i won’t be watching and i hope other’s don’t.Is a shame on NBC.

ridiculous, insane, super crazy i say

Why is she getting an 1 million for an interview? Because it will sell. You know who it will sell to? Everyone, including the people complaining. Wether she is a spoiled rich girl getting special treatment or not, your paying attention. Thats what matters. She lives an interesting life. Maybe she isn’t as important as the war in Iraq, but she offers an entertaining distraction from it. Celebrities have always offered entertainment on and off screen. This is nothing new.

Whoever airs an interview with Paris for a million dollars, I will not only not watch it, I will also not watch that network for a week. Perhaps we should all turn our backs likewise. Then such disgusting deals rewarding the rich for their bad behavior would not be so tempting.

NBC has no news to report and is finally joining the gossipmongers to make its end meet. Shame on you NBC. What little respect I had for NBC is finally gone with this interview. Welcome to the trashland NBC!

I’m embarrassed for you, Kyle, as you are obviously part of the problem. If NBC airs this interview, I will never watch any news show from them again.

A testament to how truly messed up the majority of our society is. The fact that people actually care what Paris Hilton thinks is pathetic.

Absolutely Insane!

How nauseating! A not too bright young woman who has been raised to believe she is above the law benefits yet again from inappropriate not to say life endangering behavior! What a sick society!

Frankly, I can’t say I’m surprised by this…as with most other things in America, it’s much more lucrative to ignore the unpleasant, real world stories and focus on newsertainment instead. I suppose we can only blame the American public though; the networks are just giving them what they want, however stupid it might be. Luckily I never had any faith in the American public anyway.

Stop pretending to take the high ground and admit that we are all slaves to the box and ANY news… America is boredom and we have nothing better to do. How else would you have come across this article? And to top it all off, I gurantee the majority of those reading this are at work, on the clock. GG AMERICA!

bonehead play by whatever “news” source ponies up cab fare to get Greybar Hilton to whimper for the camera. right now, the most respected source in news would seem to be The Quilting Channel, for it has no Greybar Hilton airtime.

Paris did her hard time, she has earned her stripes, now I have some real respect for her.

I did two days in the county jail before, and let me tell you, it is tough. For a woman who has been pampered all her life, it is a big thing and she deserves the money. However, I hope this experience has humbled her…

We are not amused.

I stopped watching network news a long time ago just for this very reason… This is not the first time that so-called “journalists” have compromised their integrity, while pretending to hold the moral high ground. You can send a message by refusing to watch broadcast TV news.

I AGREE WITH KYLE.
YOU GUYS ARE ALL RESPONDING TO THIS AND IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT IT OR THINK IT IS “ABSOLUTELY INSANE.” THE POINT IS YOU ARE ALL RESPONDING LIKE CRAZY AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHY THEY ARE DOING THE INTERVIEW. NEWS DEPARTMENTS TRY TO SELL HEADLINES AND OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE DOING A GOOD JOB. LOOK AT ALL THE HYPE THEY ARE RECEIVING IN RESPONSE.. GOAL ACHIEVED. THEY SUCCESSFULLY MADE THE AUDIENCE THAT THEY ARE FISHING FOR BITE AT THE LINE LIKE CRAZY.

I want to hear how she is remedicating her life to God.

I can’t believe NBC would stoop so low, they must be desperate for viewers and I’m sure they will get a lot of viewers who truly believe she deserves this notoriety. I didn’t even watch the much ballyhooed intervews with the princes and I will not watch NBC again.

Betty

Don’t we have laws in this country about profiting from your crimes? Heck, I would gladly do 23 days in jail for a million bucks when I get out. Sign me up!!

LETS SEE IF SHE GIVES ANY OF THE MONEY TO SOME CHARITY ORGANIZATION REBORN BELIEVER … MY A#$! WHAT A STUPID FRECK’IN FAKE!

the only way i will respect this decision is if paris takes that money and gives it to a charity or at least pays back the county so the tax payers wont feel so ripped off for having to succumb to her special needs while in prison. oh and i think she owes us all a few bucks for subjecting us to her stupid antics over the years.

We all have a choice don’t stay at Hilton hotels and don’t watch the interview.

Paris hilton is one of the cleverest debutants of today. She knows what to do to make money, even if it is making a fool out of herself (and us for reading about it) Shes a marketing genius. Think about it… every time she screws up she manages to find another way to make a buck or two. She became famous through her porn flick, then used that to sponsor her simple life show. Then diversified. perfumes? movies? its all there… clever I tell… clever

umm hey kristin, you are going off about us all responding but you clicked the link as well and read the story and you also responded. yeah.

Paris hilton is one of the cleverest debutants of today. She knows what to do to make money, even if it is making a fool out of herself (and us for reading about it) Shes a marketing genius. Think about it… every time she screws up she manages to find another way to make a buck or two. She became famous through her porn flick, then used that to sponsor her simple life show. Then diversified. perfumes? movies? its all there… clever I tell you… clever

Who gives a s*** about Paris Hilton??

I stopped watching television about 22 years ago, and this just confirms why I believe there is nothing worth watching.

Paris should donate the proceeds from this interview to MADD, ALANON, AA, OR a program that would benefit teens or adults with alcohol or drug issues. She said that she is going to stop acting like a silly girl and this would certainly be a positive first step.
Should this interview contain information on what is like to be in jail, then perhaps some good will come from it.

Apparently America has spoken and isn’t so stupid after all. Thousands of people complained by phoning in and emailing their complaints when Paris was given house arrest after only three or so days of her sentence. Imagine, having to spend the rest of her sentence being pampered by personal chef’s, trainer’s and a masseuse while staying in her multi million dollar abode. Oh the sheer sacrafice one must go through to earn $1 Million.

Please, arrest me and lock me up for 21 days and then pay me $1 Million after I get out.

Nadir Ahmed, your an absolute idiot if you think a pampered heiress has earned her stripes by driving drunk not once but twice while waiving her money in the face of justice because she thinks she is better than the average bear. If you and others wouldn’t do wrong, then you wouldn’t have to be so tortured by serving two days in jail…oh the shear injustice of having to serve two days for breaking the law.

what about the real issues in america? Who give a s**t about Paris Hilton? 1 million bucks to hear that dumb air head talk about jail!

lolparis

Dan Rather was correct in saying last week that network news has been “tarted up.” Nope, he wasn’t referring to Katie; he was referring to “news items” such as this!

“I’m mad as hell and I won’t take it anymore!”

Vancouver, WA

Maybe she can use the money to take a freakin’ taxi next time!

If Paris Hilton want to start a new and positive life as she claim and she assure everyone too, she should use the so-called 1 million reward money to give 100% as donation to charity.

She can prove it how she will be a new person by her action instead of by her talking.

just because we`ve read the story about the airhead getting all that money, it does not mean we will watch the interview.i don`t concider myself ‘A fish on a hook. news is news, but i draw the line at watching BS.

NBC is insane. The Today show hasn’t been worth watching for sometime and now there is absolutely no reason to waste any more time hoping that it gets better.

Good riddance.

Problem is that this shows you how little some corporate news divisions think of the general public. It also shows a sad trend in our society – there was a time when the Jackie O’s, Eleanor Roosevelts …. when young society women did things that inspired. I stopped watching the nightly news after Ted Koppel left ABC (though I still regularly tune in to Tim Russert on Sundays and CNN online (where I’m viewing this Time story) for breaking news)). Otherwise, I get my daily news from PBS. When will corporate news divisions recognize again that there is a job to do in reporting … reporting, well, real news (some bloggers know this). There is a whole world out there to discover.

I do not want to hear one more thing about that sad, worthless excuse for a celebrity Paris Hilton. Never in the field of human history can I think of anyone who is less deserving of her unearned/inherited wealth. Try as I might, I cannot think of ONE worthwhile thing that that dimbo has ever done.

It’s high time that people started saying, loud and clear, “if you broadcast — or publish — anything about Paris Hilton, we will not watch or read it. If you advertise on a program or in a publication which carries any such article, we will not purchase your products”.

I thought profitting from illegal acctivity was forbidden under the law?

$1M is spare change for this woman. It is spare change for NBC too. None of anyone’s business.

Having said that, why do you subscribe to cable is the question you middle-class hard working people should be asking yourself.

I think Paris Hilton should comeup with the million that NBC IS paying and another million of her own and give it to the RED CROSS. Then forget the interview and the whole world would be better off.

Paris is trash, americans love to hate trash and also love to watch trash, if none of us cared we wouldnt be posting comments, but we hate her so much that we read every article about her and follow her every move. who cares what the motive is, nbc knows we all follow her story out of spite or delight – either way – they make their money. the media itself has to stop airing shows about her and her kind – larry king to ET – they are all in the same boat – whatever brings in the almighty dollar. At the end of the day – she is just a flashy fly in the ointment – and will be forgotton when the ointment goes bad – and some other misguided young stupid wealthy female will take her place.

NBC could save money by eliminating the all of their new staff and just don’t have any news. They don’t really have news now, anyway.

Thats it I am getting my News from the BBC, why not everything else is being outsourced to other countries why not the news.

I wonder who will do the interview?? Matt or Merideth( I’m sorry if I mispelled her name)? The Today Show is meaningless anyway. Morning news shows are like Twinkies….junk! @ least Twinkies taste good.

The best thing that could happen is that Paris Hilton would fall into a ditch and just die.

The best PR move this bimbo could make is to donate that $1 million to MADD or some other organization that fights drunk driving. While she’s in jail for repeatedly ignoring the law, and not DUI, at least it would be a good gesture from an otherwise useless human being.

I think NBC should give 1 million dollars to the next soldier/marine/airman/seabee that steps on american soil after being deployed in a war zone. Let’s pay them for an interview! (no offense to Miss Hilton, I actually feel badly for her treatment, but let’s be realistic)

Now that would be real news, Shock.
I still think she will need the 1 million to help remedicate her life.

If Paris gets a million dollars for the interview from whatever network, I would say they are going to present us a hardcore intellectual pornography. And, we viewers will enjoy it very much with the stimulation happening in the same part of the brain that would be stimulated by watching a hard core porn.

Mark
June 22, 2007

If Paris was sincere in her statement that people shouldn’t pay attention to her drama and focus instead on the soldiers in Iraq, she’ll turn down this interview and the million OR do the interview and donate the entire sum to familes who have lost loved ones in the war.

Act bad, be bad, thumb the law…and get paid big buck! I’m so glad we have someone like Paris as a roll model. I can now sleep better knowing all is right with the world.

If it’s true and she is getting paid, I think it would be great if she donated the money to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. It would show she has truly learned her lesson and that she has reformed. A claim she has made so many times! If not, I for one won’t be watching and hope everyone else who is claiming to be outraged will do the same.

I hope she donates the money to the police officer who caught her breaking the law. Now that will be a class act of a rich and famous.

Now we’re going to be bombarded with Paris’ “life after jail” stories and how she met God etc. blah blah blah drivel. You’d think this silly young woman walked the green mile and sat on “Old Sparky” instead of spending less than 3 weeks in jail.

Hmmm… yet another thing not to watch on TV

This may be a great precedent. Though the crime rate might go up a bit, at least we’ll save a lot of taxpayers’ money since everyone will confess to get that big pay-day after doing their ‘hard time’ in jail. If 45 days get’s you a million bucks think of how much money hardened criminals can make.

How does this advance NBC’s “liberal” agenda?

Interesting. It sounds like like most of you know Ms. Hilton personally, the way you judge her. And I agree with tonhow, she is clever. She could just live off her parents, but no, she is doing well by herself, just because she has found a different way to it, doesn’t mean you have to be jealous and try to start a revolution to revolt against NBC, won’t happen. Deal with it. And I am sure most of us would serve 23 days in jail for a million dollar interview, fact is, you nor I have done anything that makes us stand out and draw attention. Who cares, does this affect your day to day activities? No. Just be entertained and let it go or dont watch it and complain to the rest of us.

Paris and I have much in common.

We both made a porn movie.
We both served time for impaired driving.
We are both stupid.

PLEASE SEND ME MY MILLION $$$

I’d hit it.

this is a joke and she is a joke

I love America!

Paris Hilton is what makes this country a better place to live in. Hark work, humility, honesty, integrity, education, and all of that other do-gooder stuff means nothing to me anymore. In order to make it here in America, you have to become selfish, conceited, arrogant, rich, and ignorant to the cares of others. I am already selfish, conceited, arrogant, and ignorant to the cares of others. All I need is the money!

It’s apparently nothing wrong with Paris , it’s the world that sucks..

Good for Paris. She’s hot and the plain-Jane’s and plain-Joe’s hate her for that. Just listen to the poor babies whine in jealous rage!

And, no… I’m not a young kid that hangs onto all the movie and hip-hop trash… I’m a 64 year old Vet of numerous war actions (both military and as civilian), presently in a foreign country living a life with some adventure.

Perhaps that’s one reason, in addition to her being such great eye-candy, that I appreciate Paris… She’s not the Wal-Mart type…

who cares?

Everyone needs to realize that this is just inevitable. I hear all sorts of people talking about how screwed up it is that all that’s in the news is Paris Hilton, and blah blah blah, instead of more important things, blah blah blah. Well, everyone who read this article about Paris Hilton, whether it’s criticizing the buzz around her, the media, or whatever is helping to contribute to the buzz by doing so. And I’m sure you’re all gonna be more interested in watching the exclusive NBC interview of Paris Hilton straight out of jail than you are those more important things that are on the tube.

IT IS A SAD WORLD WE LIVE IN ,THIS GIRL IS NO ONE, AND YET WE GIVE HER ALL THIS ATTENTION,LETS NOT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO HER AND MAYBE SHE CAN GO AWAY. THAT WOULD BE BEST FOR ALL, AND SHE WON’T BE MAKING ANYMORE MONIES!!!

Are’nt there better things to do or show taking an interview of a useless person who does’nt know how to live her own life. 1 million is a huge amount of money and it can be donated to poor country help them with food and clothes. This is insane. You really suck NBC lost one more viewer like thousand others…

She will definitely get loads of offers; there can be no denying that, no matter how sickening to many that idea is. These kinds of deals will make the networks loads of money so why wouldn’t they want to buy her story? That’s the unfortunate truth; consumers who hunger for her stories will certainly allow the networks to earn much more than the $1M they will pay for.

What Paris needs to do, now that she claims to be smarter & will not play dumb, but to be grateful for her elevated, silver-spoon-in-the-mouth status, she should have the honour, integrity & yeah, some sense of dignity to just give the money to charity. She’s going to be hounded by the media until she gives in to a crazy huge sack of money anyway. That’s the fact of life, her already elevated status in society had been further shot to the sky by the media & society who though ‘publicly’ derides her, had actually been enviously wishing that we have her life.

Give it away, Paris, for the good of your soul, your dignity, & your self-respect. You already have more, much more money than many many people, old & young. Money, you already have, mostly without earning it, & those that you earned by going to & showing up at clubs etc, not good for your soul. What you don’t have now but what you need to earn is some respect, and dignity. And a lot of gratefulness in what you already have in your life.

Everyone needs to stop blaming Paris Hilton for this. She is a sweet, beautiful girl. None of you know her and probably never will. You all are just jealous. The nonsense of boycotting the station for airing the interview – how ridiculous. Has this young lady ever done anything to you people directly? She has found God now. Yes, maybe she should choose her friends more wisely but you people need to lay off. She has done nothing to you. If you are going to be so harsh and ban Paris then you should ban George W. too…..fools.

It was refreshing to see the obvious anger that Matt Lauer showed when reporting ad nauseum on Paris Hilton. Maybe his bosses could show the same lack of restraint and spend NBC’s money on the poor and indigent or on interesting stories, not boring over reported stories about spoiled rich kids who break the law. And you wonder why real people have a problem with Hollywood types and entertainment bigwigs. They are basically ignorant and sheltered from reality. Poor poor NBC. Bet the network subscribes to the Enquirer too.

Come on guys, Paris isn’t useless. She makes a great role model for all of our fat and obese young girls. They should all wanna be bony and anorexic like her. Oh, and ditzy is a plus, too. Guys love ditzy girls cuz it’s usually easy to get in their pants.

I think Paris is great. She is gorgeous and talented. Imagine of she were running for prez. She would win! Viva Paris!!

She would make a horrible role model. How could you say such a thing?! You are crazy. Just like the others. I think Katie Couric is a wonderful role model. You should re-think who you are wanting our children to grow up and be. Jerk!

Thank you. Bye-Bye.
Regards,
Ethel

No, No, No do you have real news to report and a real project to spend 1 million on. What about the education system in this nation?

Poniewozik – You’re a Hil(ton)arious guy!

Wow, I guess between us, we had quite a bit of time to read and comment on this article and the comments on it. My only defense is that I didn’t read ALL the comments.

One thing to consider though. Paris is a story, because in this story, you learn about America. Or maybe a better way to say it is — this is a story about interest in a story.

No one, absolutely no one, except perhaps Jesus Christ, deserves a million dollars for an interview. (and he probably wouldn’t take it, or would give it to the poor) It is so sad that anyone will tune in to this interview, when real news could be discussed. Our intellegence in this country is sinking to an all time low. Does no one (NBC)care that a million dollars could do so much fo so many people? It is so sad that so many young people look up to young girls like this. So she’s pretty! Big deal. These girls (and boys) are setting themselves up for disappointment by being enamoured with girls like Paris.

Paris is getting out of jail. This is the biggest story of the year! How could NBC pass this one up? Money, money, money……….Money!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That is all I have to say.

I just wish the NBC would stop forcing me to watch anything about Hilton, oh wait, lets see, yep still a free country.

Don’t click or turn the channel to something if you dont like it, we all cannot be interested in the same thing.

But as mentioned earlier, look at all the attention its getting, looks like a money maker to me.

Pay a million dollars for the Paris Hilton interview and make back multiple times that much from the viewership? Sounds like a no-brainer to me!

What is interesting to me is how much play the “paid for interview” story is getting….

from all the news outlets (including CNN, and Time) who got outbid. “THE HORROR!!! Paying for an interview with Paris Hilton!!!! ” coming from the same corporations that have been writing/talking about her ad nauseum in pursuit of an audience for their advertisers.

somehow the outrage seems misplaced….

Personally, I like Paris. She’s a good role model for young girls with big ambitions. Everyone makes mistakes, but she obviously knows how to turn them around to her good. I applaud her desire to speak out and share what this experience has taught her. I’ll be watching!

By posting on here (as I have), it’s just move evidence that she does matter.

I think the comments are the best part of the article. Hooya

Paris Hilton provides live entertainment for us all. We should not only pay federal and state taxes, we should also a Hilton tax! She definitely deserves a million bucks for sharing stories about her hard times. NBC actually got a steal on this deal!

The War in Iraq is not the problem with America… the media’s treatment of “celebrities” who’ve added no value to others is.

@p_luk: fair point. I would only add that my slapping up a post about this comes much, much cheaper than a million dollars. Though if Time Warner wants to slip me a hundred grand or so for it, I’ll take it. (Also, I don’t know where you get the idea that Time was bidding for a Hilton interview.)

Anyway, I don’t believe that Paris Hilton doesn’t matter… I write about pop culture for a living, so I’d better not believe that. If NBC can score an interview with her for free, godspeed. I’ll watch it. It’s more the idea of taking a mil out of the news budget–even, money being fungible, out of the entertainment division.

Paris Hilton for President!!!

I’m gonna reserve the parishiltonforpres.com site, and I bet you some guy’s gonna pay me a million bucks to buy the domain name from me!

I’ll be a millionaire SOON!

Cha Ching!

LOL ! So true what patrick said ! Whats wrong with you people ? So much hatred……. who’s to say you wouldn’t behave the same way Paris has if, you were born into money and raised the way she has been. Lets not kid ourslves !

If only all this outrage and comments were posted on the Iraq War or Darfur section….playing the fiddle…

yawn, so what else is new?
Doesn’t matter: let the media pay money for interviews. If the public wants that kind of entertainment then they’ll tune in and the network will make money. If as I suspect the majority of the public don’t care about Paris then the network will have wasted the money and they will be just a little closer to their final demise.
I for one hope that they get there soon.

The real problem isn’t Paris the village idiot. These news outlets are for-profit organizations that rely on ad revenue. They will do anything to capture eyeballs and beat last quarter’s numbers. If an executive or editor doesn’t like it they can be replaced. We are too lazy to complain or demand responsible journalism. Stop whining and use the feedback form on your local station and national news org.

If NBC has 1 million dollars to give away to a person who is not a lady; then they should instead give it to the people in the USA that need it the most.The poor or the Katrina survivors. What a idiot TV company!

Jealous? Of a brainless tart whose bushels of money she has not done the least thing to earn and which she spends only on her own indulgences, as far as I can see? Jealous of someone whose only purpose is to preen and prance and act like she is God’s gift to humanity? Jealous of someone whose picture is next to “stuck up” in the dictionary? Oh, PLEASE.

And about banning George W.: the guy got his breaks through Poppy and his friends; but even his worst political enemy must acknowledge that he has at least tried to be productive, and has served our country to the best of his abilities (how well he has done that is a story for another forum). Paris serves only herself and her own pleasures. She does not deserve one more bit of publicity; she deserves only to make a quick trip to the “where are they now — as if we care?” columns.

Im surprised none of the major Networks haven’t made a reality TV show yet. GO TO JAIL FOR 23 DAYS AND WIN $1,000,000.
I’d be a contestant, but I ask the readers, how could it be made into a competition reality show??

This is a terrible example to set for all the teens who are being told not to drink and drive……..As a high school health teacher, in an instant, you have undermined all I have tried to teach about responsibility and consequences for behaviors.I have lost all respect for those in charge of the major networks who think this is remotely acceptable behavior (offering the million and the drinking/driving). They should be ashamed of themselves and in my opinion deserved to be fired.

OK … I admit it … I actually do care about Paris Hilton. I get some kind of sadistic satisfaction out of looking at a picture of her in a squad car bawling her eyes out, or reading about her screaming in the courtroom, or hearing about her medical condition (claustrophobia? bulimia? dropthesoapaphobia?) I feel indignant hearing that she’s getting paid a cool million to tell her story. But then … who’s paying her? Some news organization that thinks people would actually care enough to tune in to hear her oral drivel?

Oh … wait a second. I guess since we’re all reading these comments, that means we all clicked on the Paris Hilton article. Dammit. I guess it would be hypocritical for me to say “I can’t believe people would actually watch that trash!”

So why don’t we all just calm down, give in to our guilty pleasures, watch the interview, maybe a little Springer, and eat some Bon Bons and Cherry Vanilla Lime soda. Life is good. We’re not the ones in jail. (Yet? This time?) If we’re still uncontrollably jealous of and/or annoyed by and/or subconsciously infatuated with Mizz Hilton, then just keep watching her porn video and take comfort in knowing she’s only got maybe five, ten max good photogenic years left.

Hasta,

Honestly I think that it is crock that paris is making money off of a drinking and driving traffic stop. Then all of the bleeding hearts out there said it wasnt right for her to go to jail. Well everyone knows the story of how and y she got her sentence redused b/c “HER DADDY’S GOT MONEY”. Now being a convicted felon myself then I belive it is only right that if society has to pay her back then they should also pay ME back. And if she has got to check that little box that say’s she is a felon then she should have to check it just like the millions of other convicted felons

Here we are discussing a prospective interview of a person whose only distinction is attracting attention without doing anything but being around to attract attention.

She draws much money in this way but only because we pay attention.

Hay, I mean the liberal media can do whatever they want with their money, it is there. It is the conservatives in power doing whatever they want with OUR money is the real problem. Please go complain about something that matters. Paris Hilton and what a news corp decides to spend their $ on is not worth writing about. You have talent to spit some serious venom at things that make a much bigger difference.

Everyone saying they hate the attention Paris is getting should probably stop giving it to her by posting their opinions on the subject online. If NBC saw this site they would undoubtedly be re-affirmed in their decision to pay the money. Obviously people will pay attention. Paris Hilton’s life is just more exciting and interesting than the rest of us poor schmucks. She lives the life most Americans want. They want to be rich and famous and do whatever they want with their time. And if you think she is a rich girl getting away with crimes obviously you are wrong because one way or another she went to jail. By the way her jail time was not for the DUI, but for violating the probation following her conviction. She was given a fairly light sentence initially, but she was also a first time offender with out much of a criminal record.

Also, none of you would give the million to charity. Paris is human and she has expensive tastes. Few people short of Mother Theresa would donate the money. The idea is noble but ridiculus. Continuing to make money is how the rich stay rich.

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I think that it is total bs that Paris Hilton gets paid.. little miss all daddy’s money she wants.. high class(supposedly) girl cant get a good job later if this tarnishes her precious life. Had i gotten into her perdicament i would struggle even harder then i already do to support my 8 month old child in my middle class life but she has everything as is so she now deserves so much more. doesn’t my infant deserve what she is getting.. or better yet, dont i deserve it for being a good upstanding citizen or even the rest of the middle class parents who could so easily be affected by an idiot drunk driver.. or even the ones who have lost children to this type of hypocracy!! i just think it is totally ridiculous to reward ANYONE for bad behavior. rich, poor, homeless, i dont care who you are you dont deserve to be rewarded for putting children such as mine in danger due to your night partying. do like i do and get a cab or walk. or is she too precious to have to use those legs god so greatfully gave her and get some good exercise from her drunken night out on the town…

Also, everyone seems to think the media has some responsibility to only report on important issues that are relevant to the greater good. News flash, America is a CAPITALIST country. NBC is a buisness, not a unbiased non-profit entity. Everyone thinks the media is responsible for the trash that is posed as news but if it didn’t sell they wouldn’t produce. Personally, I read the news everyday and enjoy the Paris Hilton story because it breaks up the monotony of bombing after bombing, rape, child molestation and all the other evils in the world. I don’t believe I could stand reading the news with out lighter stories to keep me out of depression.

NBC must be pretty desperate and lowering its standards by interviewing “TRASH”. I will not watch this interview and hopfully many of you won’t either. Lets see one day out of jail and out drinking again…………… Maybe now CBS will get into the TV ratings!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard she was going to be interviewed by the Pope himself!

100% to Charity = ZERO

Just like when Michael Jordan donated his 1 million dollar salary to the 9/11 fund (but kept his 30+ million in endorsements for that 1 year). Who cares??? Even if she was paid and gave every dime to charity the press would still be rewarding her with camera time.

I scrolled down and read most of the comments, and I have so say I am not suprised by the reactions. What and who is Paris Hilton? She is neither significant nor worthy of a lot of this attention. But the same things that make her insignificant make her a magnent for attention. Society sits here and ridicules her, but secretly wishes they had one tenth of the opportunity and notoriety she has.

I personally think she is a waste of space. However, there is no need to blame NBC, the media or anyone else for that matter. I wouldn’t even blame society. Paris is a human being just like anyone else. She plays the game, loves the attention and gets pretty much anything she wants. Is that her fault? This world is full of Paris Hiltons, why waste the time and energy worrying about what she does everyday. Let NBC, US, People and everyone else exploit her, and hopefully one day we will look back on her time as just another fad.

Love her or hate her, she is part of the mainstream. Don’t waste your time hating her people. Let it go. Trust me, in ten, twenty years, no one will care.

DOn’t listen to any of these poeple paris, I love u and always will. you are the smartest and most beutifal lady in history an always will be. you could solve cancer if you wanted too you are so smart and pretty. these poeple are meen and angry over you’re pretty ness and beauty, dont’ let them hurt u u are to good for them. I want to see everything about u and other things about u to. i hope prison didnt’ hurt your prettiness my little princess.

You cannot profit from crime in the USA, unless of course you are non-white and filthy rich. Then you are entitled to profit from the act in question, i.e. a crime for which a person is punished by a court of law.

TJ
Canada

What always gets me about these types of situations is the fact that people forget what country they are living in. This is America! The greatest country on earth. We are a capitalist society with freedom of choice and a wonderful free market economy. I wouldn’t have it any other way. The 1 mill for the interview is a business risk just like any other that corporations take every day. News organizations long ago stopped being about news. These days you have to be entertaining if you want viewers. I can hop on line and in seconds have real news. And as far as Paris goes, she is a hoot. Yea, she’s real dumb all right. I’m sure she will be thinking about that as she is on the way to the bank to deposit her check. Everyone needs to stop crying about what a corporation pays for a service and if you don’t like the decision … Don’t Watch !!!

Until now, I would not have agreed to a boycott of a network, but this is a legitimate reason to do so. There is no way that a spoiled, free-loading, over indulgent debutante should be getting paid to discuss her well-earned incarceration. I will reach out to everyone that I know in the Bay Area to boycott every single tv show on NBC for the week of the broadcast.

While I smell a whiff of sour grapes emanating from journalists regarding this news, I think a part of me would agree with them that this is appalling and completely unjust. How come NBC (OR ANY BODY ELSE FOR CHRISTSAKE) doesn’t investigate Dick Cheney’s financial interest in Halliburton?

On the other hand, I bet NBC will probably make money off their $1 million investment. Let’s not hate the players, let’s hate the game here.

Being a business major in college, and a hard working type, I never have considered doing business for Hilton or work for them. Anything associated with the Hiltons, I don’t buy regardless of the quality. I never watched her shows, or ever found her attractive, heck I think there are far better women celebrities out there that are worth the time to interview than this person. Just seeing her parent’s actions and how they talk, its no wonder her parents are in their mid-life crisis trying to make up for lost time through their daughter. I think that considering the role this woman plays for young women, the sentence she served, was light and she should of been given a harsher sentence, then some probation, and finally a warning that if she do it again it will be mandatory 5 years prison term and 5 million dollar fine. If she had killed somebody, this would be a whole different story and she be facing manslaughter charges and good ole Daddy and mommy I do not think would of been able to bail her out. I am for one for giving someone a second chance, but whether she has changed will remain to be seen within a year. We can only pray that she truly changes. Its like a drug addict, they can reform, but if they go back to the old environment, they end up doing the same offense again. The odds are in favor of her committing the same act again. And shame on the networks for paying this kind of money for an interview. I gave up watching prime time after NBC took CHEERS off the air 14 years ago. I even think television as a whole has gone down the drain since reality television has taken over. Take care and God Bless.

There is not a little cruelty in the way Paris is being considered by a lot of people.

Which of us would reject Paris’ advantages of seemingly unlimited wealth and attractive looks? Not many, few of us have as much of those things as we would like.

Yet, are any of us envious of her accomplishments or of the character that she projects? Not really, I think.

While she is a celebrity and the vast majority of us never will be, She is one because there is an audience that wishes to give her attention.

If that audience should ever lose interest, what will she have left? Is there anything that she will be able to point to and say, that is here because of me?

She is young, I hope she can grow up, soon.

well, turns out that I went ahead and read all the comments… I’m endlessly interested in finding out what people are thinking about an article, and seeing how people respond to one another in situations like this. It’s somewhat funny, to be honest.

when it comes to stories like this, people seem to be crazy about putting their two cents in about the outrage that they’re feeling over the issue… and how they want to boycott all coverage of the issue. but if you were boycotting it, then would you have read this article in the first place? why put down others for the very thing that you are doing yourself? I’m certain that many of the people that have commented on this will end up watching the interview… and then commenting on how stupid it was to watch it, and how terrible a role model Paris is.

Now don’t get me wrong… I in no way like Paris myself. I find her a poor excuse for a human being. But the fact remains that I chose to read this article, and took the time to read the other comments, and even took more time out of my day to make a comment myself. It just speaks volumes about the nature of our culture, and how everyone wants to be someone making an input into the nationwide conversation… even if it is a sadly over-reported issue.

I do also agree that Paris should be completely stricken from the media headlines… but until we all agree to stop reading even the slightest article about her, she will continue to be there, and we will all be there to endlessly comment about it.

And libs wonder why their “big three” newscasts and biased newspapers have declining viewership/readers.

Paris gets fucked and the media pay’s her for it, That been her M.O. since day one.

America the beautiful. The Paris Hilton, lovely damsel in distress, Viola!

The would be interview will be a great escape from the dance of death in Iraq and elsewhere. It soothes our nerves and gives us the comfy feeling of all is well in our world.

Keep up the good journalism.

Great for her. This is capitalism and free market at work – I thought we liked both. I would have liked to see her get more – maybe $2M.

We are so consumed in minutia, no wonder we have George Bush in the White House.

Maybe NBC is trying to boost their Ratings… They need it!!

The Great Gatsby is an excellent piece of fiction.

Hasn’t anybody noticed we live in an upside down world yet?

It’s ALL upsidedown and backwards. Understanding gets alot easier once you see it.

Question is, how to turn it rightside up…?

Don’t blame Paris. It is the soft and coruptable media that is paying her the money. If there was no market for the interview than there would be no money paid to her. The blam rests equally on the greedy media and moronic public mob.

It’s sad that in a country where war veterans are scrimping to feed their families and trying to make ends meet after serving their country in war, we as a nation can pay a millionaire, spoiled, heiress a million dollars for spending 23 days in jail after reckless driving and dui charges. I’ll have some respect for the girl if she can donate the money to charity. Then we can say she learned a lesson.

Paris Hilton needs the Tate-La Bianca treatment, I vote we let the Manson Family out of prison to redeem themselves with one last good deed for mankind. Yeah, I went there.

“The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.” (Vanna Bonta)

amen

Too bad a poor black man arrested for the same thing won’t get a million bucks…this is insane, racist, and shows the absurdity of our criminal justice system and society – just think about – O.J can’t make money off his crime but Paris Hilton can!

This blog and any other just perpetuates this BS. This stupid little slut is being rewarded for being just that. It’s a big part of what’s wrong with this country. This deserves no attention from the media except they are a bunch of sluts themselves!

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!

Oh gross. Give me a break. Bite me Paris Hilton.

Tired of it all..lets’ move on..PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Free markets FOREVER!!!! We empower her high fee thru our viewership. Hopefully she will donate the money to charity to make herself look good.

Hey, who cares if a billion dollar heiress spends a day in jail for drunk driving. We have illegal immigrants who have been caught a whole H%#LL of a lot mores times doing the same thing and all we do is “catch and release!!!!”. They do about 12 hours in jail and a couple days later they get out and kill some wife and her unborn child. I say let her pay some HUGE penalty and let’s all forget it. Let’s face it, the news sucks anyway. Who cares what they spend there $money$ on. I use rabbit ears, reception blows, but is free!!!!!

Free market economy at work, I have no problem with it. I have a bigger problem with CEOs getting compensation packages that are not indexed to their company’s performance, and elected officials who shill for corporate lobbyists. That’s a corruption of our system. Paris Hilton getting dough to talk is not.

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Who gives a rat’s *** about Paris Hilton? I won’t watch it.

START SENING MERIDITH EMAILS NOW ASKING HER NOT TO INTERVIEW PARIS HILTON.
I REALLY THOUGHT MERIDITH HAD MORE CLASS THEN TO DO THIS KIND OF INTERVIEW.

THER ARE SO MANY MORE INTERESTING STORIES THAT SHOULD BE TOLD. PARIS IS JUST OLD BAD NEWS.

POSTED BY MARY
JUNE 22, 2007

“(Also, I don’t know where you get the idea that Time was bidding for a Hilton interview.)”

I was obviously unclear. Time DOES write about Hilton — and I’ve no doubt that Time-Warner’s cable news outfit (CNN) would be willing to make a sizable “charitable contribution” or purchase “ancillary materials” to get the Hilton interview. (The guy who took the cell phone videos of the Virginia Tech shooting gave exclusive interviews to CNN, and was paid, for instance.)

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50% of Americans are simple minded and have a boring life. That’s whats appealing about PH. The only way this nonsense will stop, is to let the media pay big $$ for these non value/worthless interviews and American in turn, does not watch.
But again, 50% of Americans do not have a life. PH should read “A mighty Heart” by Mariane Pearl, but, being a dumb woman that stupid people love, she can only pretend to read.

From the New York Times, on Time-Warner’s complicity in the Hilton interview bidding wars…

“On the print side, People magazine had made a deal to pay $300,000 for photos that would have accompanied an interview with Ms. Hilton.”

now, supposedly this deal has been called off, and Larry King is getting the interview “without paying for it.” But a $300K offer from one branch of Time-Warner and a Larry King interview for another branch of Time Warner is the very definition of the kind of “synergy” that these media mega-corporations were created to exploit.

So, maybe six months down the road, when People does another profile of the Hilton family, we’ll see these “family photos” that are supposedly worth $300K, and no one will be the wiser….

I will watch the show only for a good laugh…poor little rich girl did a few days in jail and wailed like a baby…looks good on her and maybe it will teach some of her so called friends that are coming up on charges of thier own for drugs and driving on the wrong side of the freeway to straighten out and learn that no one is above the law…EXCEPT O.J. SIMPSON and look how messed up his childen are because of not knowing if he was guilty or not for killing thier mother …sad…very sad…SANDY H.(CANADA)

ONE MORE THING PARIS,IF YOU GET A MILLION DOLLARS…. GIVE IT TO A CHARITY…YOU SURE DON’T NEED IT…AND DID YOU MAKE ANY MONEY FOR YOUR SEX TAPE?DEPENDS HOW GOOD YOU WERE I GUESS.. GIVE THAT TO CHARITY ALSO…SANDY (CANADA)