I have always wondered about the media's strange fascination with the ridiculous Hollywood party girls/actresses (mostly Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton.)

They simply don't do anything newsworthy.

Do we really care that Lindsay is drinking again? Big deal. Britney shaved her head? That's just life-changing. Paris was caught driving with a suspended license? Scandalous.

Paris Hilton is one of the easiest to pick on. She is insanely rich, has probably not worked an honest day in her life, and literally bounces around southern California going to party after party.

And yet, she and Britney are some of the most popular searches on Yahoo!. Every single week, there is a headlining story on my CNN RSS feed about one of these people. They should stop reporting on them entirely because it is irrelevant dribble.

Imagine my joy when I found this...

For an entire week, the Associated Press told their people not to cover any stories about Paris Hilton.

People do not, in fact, miss news about these people, these so-called "celebutantes." These girls are famous for fame's sake. They are very good at getting publicity without any justifiable reason.

People were mostly shocked that AP would issue an internal memo banning Paris coverage for one week, rather than being shocked that they didn't have their weekly fix of celebrity gossip.

This is something I'd wondered about for a long time, and that article interested to me to no end, because an AP editor turned around to look at the reporting of his own organization and found that, really, it was all rather frivolous and unfounded.

Bravissimo! Give us something relevant and enlightened to read.