There's Nothing Better Than A Little Press Coverage

For ages 18-21
The purpose of this editorial is to address the fact that people spend way too much time focusing on the lives on people who they don't even know and who don't do anything for society.

Madonna, the Queen of pop, falling off a horse is hardly breaking news and yet an entire article is devoted to the incident. According to Madonna herself the reason she had to relive another frightful experience on a horse was due to a paparazzi scaring her horse. However, Thomas Hinton says he was the only photographer there and only captured pictures of her before and after the incident.

According to the article,Madonna suffered only minor injuries and bruises, so does anyone really care? What people actually care about- besides politics and economics- is controversial, enticing entertainment news. This article is more like a diary entry of Madonna's life rather than "breaking news". To be honest, the only interesting thing about this article is finding out that she was denied the adoption of a child from a southern African country. Children in underdeveloped countries are dying and suffering each day and Madonna- one of the wealthiest people in the world- was not allowed to help them. I can only imagine what the adoption agency must think of her.

The bottom line and underlying issue is that people focus too much on trivial situations,like Madonna falling off a horse,than recognizing the true suffering in the world,like the children in underdeveloped countries. If everybody in the world payed more attention to the important things in life then maybe we'd all be on our way to finding cures for them instead of trying to find out about Madonna's next album.