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Paris Attempts to Curtail Media Coverage of Her Jail Sentence
10-Jun-2007
Written by: Jackson Reeves
Paris will serve her full sentence and hopes to redirect the media to more worthy news topics.
Here’s another drop in the Paris Hilton media-frenzy bucket, and Paris doesn’t like it anymore than I do.
“I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail,” Paris Hilton commented in a statement released Saturday by her lawyer, Richard Hutton, on the seemingly unceasing media coverage that has tracked every step of her incarcerated ordeal. “I would hope, going forward, that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.”
Star of "The Simple Life," heiress to the Hilton Hotel bank account, and partier extraordinaire, Paris Hilton became famous in the early millennium for being famous, and America has had a love-hate relationship with her ever since. America could always agree on at least one thing with regard to its most prominent celebutante: she loves attention, thus helping to bring about an age in which all press is good press. But the tide has turned for the 26-year-old woman ,whom many, including Rev. Al Sharpton, view as a symbol of the corrupt American judicial system (a system in which money, over truth, begets justice).
Hilton openly disrespected a DUI-reprimanding suspension of her license by continuing to drive her Mercedes-Benz in Malibu. After police officers further reprimanded her TWICE, the heiress was taken to court, where the honorable Judge Michael Sauer sentenced Hilton to 45 days in jail.
But the media frenzy really hit full throttle when Sheriff Lee Baca let Hilton out of jail after serving a measly three days because Hilton experienced psychological trauma, the potentially duplicitous and judicially contemptuous Baca alleged. And now that she has become a scapegoat for the ills of society’s checks-and-balances, Hilton, and America, sees that even though all press is good press, all press is also political press. After such close scrutiny, the off-and-on-screen reality star wants to redirect the media’s watchful eye.
As a first step, Hilton declared her intent to not appeal Judge Sauer’s enforcement of his prior ruling. The celebutante will serve her full time in the Los Angeles County Jail without incurring any further litigious action, and – as she hopes – not incurring any further mediated action.
I have to agree with Paris on this point. Enough is enough, and it seems like maybe Paris Hilton is actually reaching the hypothetical goal of incarceration within a reformatory: reformation.
“Being in jail is, by far, the hardest thing I have ever done,” Hilton said. “During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience.”
Let the profound life lessons start flowing, and let’s just hope that Paris doesn’t pull a Britney.
Information from Reuters was used in this article.
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