tabloid world

there's no shortage of real news out there, but after all those years of news isolation, i realize fully that the tabloid news is as equally important to the people of the world, be they the object of the tabloid news or the consumer. tabloid-style coverage gives the common person a chance to see that the "rich and powerful" are just shallow schmucks like everybody else. surely it is part of human nature to common denominatorize those who stand out. but at the same time we worship these schmucks as demigods. i guess we are just beasts after all...