Dustin Patterson's Blog

If you’ve been around any sort of news source in the past few days, you’re probably aware that another celebrity – Lindsay Lohan – is going to jail.

Being in her 20’s, many individuals from my age group may know of Lohan from her appearance in Disney’s The Parent Trap (1998).  She more or less disappeared from the public eye until her appearances in Freaky Friday (2003) and Mean Girls (2004) in the early 2000’s.

Soon after becoming successful Lohan began to join the list of criminal celebrities.  After being involved in a traffic accident in early 2007, Lohan was given her first DUI which was promptly followed by a second one two months later.  After failing to attend a scheduled DUI progress hearing in May 2010, a warrant was issued for Lohan’s arrest.  It was later determined that Lohan had violated her probation and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.

The day her jail sentence began, it didn’t seem like there was any other news to report.  Our beloved CNN even provided a live feed of Lohan reporting for her jail sentence.  The Twitter account @CNNbrk, supposedly for “Breaking News” sent these Tweets letting the account’s over 3 million followers know that Lohan was on her way to jail and was in handcuffs.  Her father is also making an appearance on Larry King Live to talk about the jail sentence.

I say enough with the celebrity coverage!  Seriously America, we have more important things to worry about then which celebrity goes to jail.  People go to jail everyday for DUIs, what makes a celebrity going to jail so entertaining?

Instead of being concerned about celebrities like Lohan, why don’t we start worrying about solving more important issues?  The economy, the homeless, the unemployed, the hungry, AIDS, cancer, our dying troops, and the BP oil spill and its cleanup are just a few things that come to mind that are more important than Lindsay Lohan.  America is supposedly still in some of it’s worst economic times in history.  Record numbers of people are without jobs, yet the media is worried about celebrities’ personal lives.  I’m sorry, but it just doesn’t make sense to me.  Our country could be so much better if we actually got down to business on some of these more important issues.

I’m well aware that our fascination with celebrities’ personal lives has always existed and that it probably won’t be changing anytime soon, but I challenge you America that the next time a celebrity goes to jail or gets a speeding ticket, think “Is this really that important to my life?”

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts on this post.

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