re: Paris Hilton -- There Are Bigger, Better Objects For Our Derision

James Wolcott nails it:

It's understandable that the camera-preening flaunting of wealth, youth, arrogance, and privilege on an endless red carpet strut through the supermarket tabloids and the E! network would produce a tangy taste of payback when a Paris Hilton gets tossed in the clink or a Lindsay Lohan is photographed puking and looking unstrung, but there are bigger, better objects for our derision, worthier causes to flex our jaw muscles about in chewy indignation.

As if to illustrate his point, we read yesterday that the same photographer who captured the now-ubiquitous image of Paris Crying (above) also captured another iconic image of a young woman crying, nearly exactly 35 years ago yesterday (below):

Read more about Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut.