It's official, Paris Hilton is back in the Los Angeles County Jail. Whew! After being released late Thursday afternoon, spending one night in her parent's mansion in L.A. and then she was re-arrested midday on Friday.

It was a frantic scene on all the major cable news outlets, including FOX, MSNBC, and CNN covered "wall to wall," as we say in the business. Reporters jockeying for position, photographers fighting for a place to get the best photo. At one point, a reporter was involved in an altercation with another, as the police squad car rolled away from the Hilton mansion.

My major question is who cares???

Have we as a society stooped so low that this is considered news? Especially when there are other major international stories that could effect our lives in more dire ways in the immediate future, why are we interested in the Paris Hilton's of the world? For example, there is a war going on in Iraq, hel-lo!!! Remember???!!! There was one report on local TV today about a young soldier's family that is raising funds to help buy supplies the Army cannot provide, like boots and body armor. That should be the lead story on any cable outlet. Really! We send troops to war to protect our way of life and we can't even give them the tools they need to get the jobs done and to protect their lives!

What is the country coming to? Maybe the question should be, why are we allowing the greatest country in the world to let this happen? Isn't this what we should be more concerned about? Instead of some ditzy blond who was already on probation for drinking and driving. Hilton got caught drinking and driving again and that's why she was sent to jail, for violating her probation. I bet if some of the top news execs at the cable networks previously mentioned starting adding up the time spent on the story by reporters, photographers, satellite truck operators, helicopter time, the helicopter pilot's salary, the satellite windows and on and on. Why don't the networks which make millions take that money, donate it to the military families so they can buy the equipment for soldiers the government won't to make our soldiers safe?

This may sound like the rantings of a mad man, but come on folks, have we really lost touch with reality to the extent that we can't see what should be important?

I can tell you right now, Paris Hilton is not important and does not deserve the attention! Trust me on this one. When will we wake up