Comments on: Perez Hilton is giving Bloggers a bad name

By: Joyce

Joyce — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:12:34 +0000

@Scott Bourne: I think that movie sums up the direction the world is going in. A world with Jerry Springer as King. Hopefully we can find more important things on the net that enrich us. I'll stay here and learn new things about my 200 function digital camera. I say let him be and spend your time teaching.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:10:37 +0000

The very fact that intelligent people are mentioning Mr. Hilton and the first amendment in the same sentence is disturbing. Yes, everyone is free to express their opinion, but it should come with a disclaimer and a warning. I’ll bet the founding fathers are slapping their heads wherever they’re at saying “where the %@$! did we go wrong”. The really disturbing trend is that kids are being educated in this gossip, trendy, mass-media oriented society and believing that it is morally ok to behave as such. The real question we should be debating is whether or not blogs should come with a warning screen just like the pornographic sites do. “Caution, this is my opinion and you don’t have to agree”. “Parental Advisory”.

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[...] skip the recent details of her personal life because as you know from my previous Perez Hilton bashing article, I’m not a fan of celebrity gossip. But in this case, I’ll allow one cheesy [...]

By: Wyzard

Wyzard — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:59:09 +0000

My opinion is that if Mario Lavandeira (Perez Hilton’s real name) can make money by getting 1.7 million people to go on his site, then I have this to say…

More power to him.

I don’t like the man – I briefly met him a couple of years ago and he is a wannabe celebrity. He claims to be friends with a number of actors and actresses and in fact they can’t stand him. But, people do like going to his site because people like reading about the drug and sex habits of celebs, true or not.

I agree that he gives bloggers a bad name, but on the other hand if people want to read what he publishes on his web site, then so be it.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:23:10 +0000

I’m actually calling people snobs for calling other people uneducated for reading the website. Pretty similar to what Melissa is doing actually.

The more I think about this blog, the more I want to say this: Since when have we become the intellectual censor for the world? And what gives us the right to do that?

By: Melissa Yeuxdoux

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:01:12 +0000

“…I may not like what you say, but that doesn’t give you the right not to say it…”

I hope that sort of incoherence isn’t the result of reading perezhilton.com.

By: JeffDM

JeffDM — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:43:03 +0000

Sarah, I’m pretty surprised that you’re working so hard to defend such a vacuous posterboy of Idiocracy. You talk about some high-minded ideals, but you seem to ignore the rabid destructiveness of that kind of gossip, calling people snobs for being disgusted with that. It seems to me that you too have the same traits that you are complaining about.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:46:03 +0000

I’m not even sure I know who this person is. Judging by the reaction of most people, the right thing to do is probably to continue not caring. Ignorance is bliss, afteral.

By: m.v.

m.v. — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:16:28 +0000

in my opinion perezhilton.com is just a blog created with the sole scope to make money using what the masses unfortunately like, “trashy, demeaning, vulgar gossip whose only scope is to humiliate, denigrate, trash, bash and diminish a human being (hence celeb) just for a morbid pleasure”… i don’t think it will affect the way people sees blogs though…. blogs are like channels on the tv there are enough for every taste and cultural level… thankfully I don’t like those kind of trashy blogs whose writers love to make fun of people…. on top it does more damage to young boys and girls in our society which I’m pretty sure are the 80% of his readers compared to the good it does by placing ads of charities, etc…. like teenagers don’t have enough pressure in their lives with weight, skin color, religious issues and fashion to add on top this kind of journalism in their heads… but I’m afraid its what brings money and that’s what is all about.

By: Drew Griffin

Drew Griffin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:57:57 +0000

Lisa,

Insightful and honest posting. Glad to hear your nOOb mother is following her daughter’s foot steps. Keep up the great work.