Grounded In Reality

NY Times posted an article on Sunday called ”Grade-school Girls, Grown-up Gossip“ taht that discussed the influx (and ease) on information available to the children growing up during this Internet Age.

Although the article is predominately focused on how these tweens view the actions of celebrities, there are some facts:

According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, the death of Anna Nicole Smith, on Feb. 8, constituted 9 percent of news coverage the week she died (she died midweek). That same week, 8 percent was devoted to the 2008 campaign and 3 percent to the Super Bowl. Pew also found that in the two days following Ms. Smith’s death, “nearly a quarter of the news from all sectors (24 percent) was devoted to this story, and fully half of cable news.”

One of the worst examples of this is that when Anna Nicole’s name is mentioned above, the NYTimes links back to ALL the coverage they produced, obviously contributing significantly to the Pew research.

With that kind of saturation, how is a kid NOT supposed to read about Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton?!?!