Lindsay Lohan being sentenced to prison for 90 days
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So, Lindsay Lohan is going to Jail for 90 days because she never completed the mandatory alcohol and drug classes that were assigned to her after she was caught driving drunk and with cocaine on her in 2007.
This, I do not care about.
What I do care about is that this is one of the top 10 most viewed stories today in El Periodico. But why? What relevance does Lindsay Lohan have to Spain? She's never done a movie in spanish, or filmed a movie in Spain, or even had a Spanish co-star! Not that that means they can't enjoy her fantastic work in Mean Girls or Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, but I guess more than anything I'm just surprised that A) there is as much of a celebrity-obsessed culture here as there is in America and B) those celebrities are American. Now I know I'm generalizing here a bit, but I do think that it says something that Lindsay Lohan going to jail is making worldwide news. Is that what America exports? Real life trashy dramas about over-worked, over-privileged celebrity 'it' girls who get hardly any jail time for something that normal people might go to jail for 20 years for? I'm reading stories in the paper about breakthroughs from German scientists and groundbreaking Swedish studies, and then when it comes America's turn all we have to offer is Lindsay in a jumpsuit? What are the priorities of America? What do we export around the world? Is it valuable at all, or just merely fluffy culture junk that has no real consequence to anyone?
I'm thinking fluffy culture junk...
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