Besides Elian and the Monica Lewinsky stories of yesteryear, what's the news story you're most sick of?

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

Answers

Dare I say Harry Potter?

:: The entire digital ink readership lift their guns and point them at Tim ::

that'll be a 'no' then will it?...

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

hey = what's wrong with Harry Potter? If you must know, I bought the book yesterday!!

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

I'm completely sick of the . . . I don't keep to into national and international news, but I do know that they always talk about celeberties and their abusive, or cheating, or whatever spouces. I'm sick of all the celebraty gossip. They're people too and it's devestating enough to find out your spouce is cheating, but it's got to be horrible to find out by reading it in the paper.

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

I agree with Tim, Harry Potter stories = boring, Harry Potter period = boring.

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

I kinda wish George W. Bush & Alan Keyes would disappear. They're not in the news thaaat much but seeing them at all sucks...

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

This is more of a question. For all the people that hate Harry Potter, have any of them actually *read* any of the books? (I haven't just in case you think I'm a rabid fan or something.) And is that why you hate them? Or you just hate the media circus surrounding it? Just curious I suppose!

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

I don't really hate Harry Potter. I read the first two and enjoyed them - I mean, they were good, but not Rold Dahl standard or anything. The third one I started and may finish at some time, and the fourth I'llprobably get when it comes out in paperback. The phenomina (sp?) itself I actually find pretty interesting, it's just getting a little tiresome...

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

hmm... harry potter is definetly getting on my nerves... catholic brainwashing. i know about that... la la love,

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

This is a bit off topic, but when I was in 6th grade I called Roald Dahl, "Ronald". My teacher was like yelling at me..totally embarrasing. I'm really sick of hearing about the JFK thing..it's been how long? And OJ too. Grrr..

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

Yeah, I'm really sick of the JFK Jr. thing. It was said, but it happened so long ago and the media should just leave that family alone. I mean, I was at McDonald's today and they had the USA Today on display. On the front page, there was something about the plane crash still. Can we get on with it already?

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

There isn't any particular news coverage topic that I'm sick of, but goddamn, I watch the news and read the paper for NEWS, not the lame human interest pieces. With the paper it's not so bad because you can skip anything you're not interested in, but the local news here tends to run the fluff before the actual news and it's horribly annoying.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Whats-her-name...the woman who said she wanted out of the public eye and then posed nude for Playboy...yeah, I'm so sick of her, yet I don't even remember her name...w

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Darva Conger, you're talking about Darva Conger or however she spells that name.

I agree. What a trashy way to get into playboy magazine... you know she was all "Maybe if I win, and then I make up this story about how he's *just not my type*, and everyone feels sorry for me, I'll get to be in PLAYBOY!!!" :o)

Just kidding.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Oh - I totally agree about the local news. Yuck. I read the paper every morning. What can I say? I'm a throwback to an earlier age - when you could get an EVENING paper as well. Oh well.

BBC online world service news isn't bad either - I'll listen to that. They don't do human intrest crap OR dumb American politics. They do talk about rowdy football fans though. But that's at least a change. (for those of us on this side of the pond)

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Anything having to do with Backstreet Boys/NSYNC/Britney Spears/"insert teen pop icon here". Like Chris Rock once said, "remember New Kids On The Block? You know how this movie ends!".

I second Darva Conger, what a effing hypocrite. "I just want a normal private life ... wait, here look at my boobies and my bush!" If I were a dude, I really wouldn't pay to see her wrinkled old bag of bones naked, let alone for free.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Wow, I can't believe I forgot Darva. That's actually the thing I am most sick of lately. I find it quite funny that right after the whole show, she was portraying herself as innocent, feel sorry for me, blah blah bullshit..she'd wear barely any makeup and whatnot. Now she wears too much makeup and dresses like a teenager. Whatever.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

I freely admit that I haven't read any Harry Potter books and don't intend to (there's more than enough authors I'm hooked on already). But like you said, I realy am sick of the media frenzy around those books. Like Thomas Harris is one of the best authors I ever read, but when he brings out a new book, nothing. Blah.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Survivor! It's a shame a stray missle test didn't find that island. CBS, your country has spoken! And also, Big Brother. Why would I watch people bitching on television about their pointless lives? I already get enough of that at work!

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

I have to be a terrible pain in the ass and back up Darva Conger. I didn't watch the horrible "Marry a Millionaire" thing, nor do I have any idea why she entered in the first place, but the other night I saw her on Dateline (or one of those shows) and she was actually shrewd and intelligent. Her whole take on the thing seems to be "Okay, I could lay down and tell everyone 'Oh no, don't hurt me,' OR I can be smart and make money off the whole ordeal."

It made a lot of sense to me, the way she said it. I didn't feel sorry for her or dislike her after that. I just identified with her. Which makes her a good politician, if nothing else.

Oh yeah, I like Harry Potter too. Boy, my first appearance on this board, I am REALLY going to make a lot of friends.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

I've never actually read Harry Potter, but it is getting little kids to read, and I think that is pretty awesome.

-dan

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Angela: I agree -- I saw her on some Fox News special, and was impressed... I would have never expected her to be so articulate. She doesn't take anyone's crap either... the interviewer was getting a little smartass attitude (typical for Fox News anchors... anyone else notice this?), and she looked him dead in the eye and just slammed him with some remark, I don't remember what it was, but I laughed for about two hours.

My opinion is we all do some dumb shit sometimes... but sometimes you can make some serious cash off it. It's called capitalism people... where the hell do you think you live? This is America, our society is built around people capitalizing off of stupid stuff. I mean she said she wanted her normal life back, but when she went back to that normal life, it wasn't there anymore. She got fired and all that other crap, and she needed the cash. And if she doesn't have a problem doing what she did, why the hell should anyone else? I'd probably do the same freaking thing if I was dead broke... uh, provided I had the body, face, and self-confidence for it. Which I don't, so moving on...

Dan: I agree -- Better for kids to read Harry Potter than say, Goosebumps and the like.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

I saw the Dateline thing too, and after that, I stopped ragging on Darva. She brought up some very good points, and I agreed with her.

I really like Harry Potter; I tried to buy Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but couldn't find it at Barnes and Noble. I don't think that media attention takes away from the book itself, and it really isn't JK Rowlings' fault that there is so much hype surrounding the new book.

What I'm really sick of is the term "dot-com millionaire", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", Regis Philbin, "Greed", and the nation's fixiation with 7 digit salaries.

(off topic, but is Roald Dahl pronounced "Rolled Doll" or "Ro ' ald Doll"?)

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

it doesn't seem as clever when you see darva conger on every news show, saying the same thing, and then contradicting herself on every single news show two weeks later. i can't believe people care about her still. it makes me sick that she's a 'celebrity' or whatever.

i'm also sick of anything that glorifies surveillance, like 'the real world', 'road rules', 'survivor', 'big brother', etc. i don't want to hear about boring people's boring lives on television. that's what the internet is for.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2000

Evil news stories which are just plain old? How 'bout the Olympics? Is anyone else absolutely sick of stories about them?

-- Anonymous, September 10, 2000