I don't have anything planned that I wanted to write about today.
As I have said in the past, sometimes things just come to me to write about, sometimes I know exactly what I am going to write about, and sometimes, like today, nothing really stands out in my mind that I want to put up here for all to see.
I guess you could call it temporary writer's block; I don't care who the writer is, there are days that they just don't have anything to say, nothing comes to mind, and they don't have anything specific to talk about.
Like today with me.
And going on the title of today's Rant, I am going to write about something that often gives me fodder to write on, but which more often than not is simply a slight amusement to me in the morning when I am preparing to write something.
And that is the "news" provided on the Yahoo home page, which my computer opens up to once I go onto the Internet each and every day.
This page is certainly the National Enquirer of "news," featuring some legitimate news stories but a preponderance of trashy items, non-news items that are deemed "news" by Yahoo.
Today's list is truly representative of what you get on your Yahoo page each and every day of the year, with salacious headlines about non-news items that are treated with the reverence that real news items used to get, but don't anymore.
Let's see what we have today ...
"Demi Lovato's Ex Wilmer Valderama 'Devestated' Over Her Reported Overdose, Didn't Know Her Issues Were This 'Severe'"
"'Married At First Sight' Bride Arrested At Airport On Her Way To Honeymoon"
"Oregon Woman Finds Mountain Lion Napping In Her Home: 'This Is Wild'"
"Jenna Jameson Proudly Sbows Off 57 Lbs. Weight Loss"
"Demi Lovato's Overdose: 'This Is Absolutely What So Many People Feared' Said Source"
Yes, the news world, if you want to believe Yahoo, revolves around the Demi Lovato overdose, or at least reported overdose ... could you imagine if your daily newspaper plastered this all over its front page ... I mean, this is news?
Yahoo does offer an actual news page, which is one click away from its opening page, but how many people actually click onto the news page (I do)?
Thus, for much of the populace that uses Yahoo as its opening page, this is the news page that they get more often than not, and thus, whatever Demi Lovato did or didn't do is the top news item of the day.
If it is really news at all.
This type of non-news news first crept onto our news radar via a TV show like "Entertainment Tonight," which started life as a real, true news show about entertainment but over the years has morphed into nothing more than a brown-nose platform for Hollywood-ites to show us how much fun their lives are.
With such shows making celebrities out of true nobodies, was it a big stretch for the Internet to pick up on this, and bring it even to the next level of insipidness?
I might be out of the big picture of today, but somehow, Demi Lovato and what she did or did not do is really not on my radar, and certainly not on my news radar.
Every generation has had such non-news items morph into news items--heck, how many times did the news cover the drug busts of Mick Jagger and Keith Richard 50 years ago--but today, it has kind of gotten out of hand.
And while I type, I have my TV on, and I hear that the local news reported on ... Demi Lovato's overdose.
Yes, I must be out of the loop, completely out of the loop.
Maybe it IS time to pay more attention to my Yahoo home page, and in particular to Demi Lovato.
Maybe.
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