I Need to Know This?

I have recognized for many years now that we have a culture that worships at the altar of celebrity. So much so, in fact, that we have people that are famous just because they are famous (pick your favorite "reality star - and I use both of these words loosely - and insert their name here). But, how strange are things when it is newsworthy that a famous person - in this case, Michael Jordan (who is famous for good reason, I might add) - does something utterly ordinary and it makes the news? Case in point, Michael Jordan may or may not have shed a tear as his son's basketball team won the Illinois state high school basketball championship. Whoop-de-dooh! Are we really that obsessed with celebrity that this is news? Are there no other important things happening in the world that perhaps we should know about (like, for example, how would people respond if they read an article on the web and then were told that in the minute that they spent in this insipid, trivial, meaningless tripe - have I made my feelings known, here? - thousands of people died because they do not have enough food). What is next? My question is, "how far are we going to take this lunacy? Michael Jordan cried today. Paris Hilton blew her nose? Lindsey Lohan went potty today, news at 11:00 a.m. I get it - celebrities are people - just like you and me. And it is no more interesting when they wipe their bottoms than when I do. So, perhaps, we can let them live their lives, and get on with living ours.