We'll Always Have Paris

The story in the NY Times this morning says that NBC has outbid ABC for the right to have the first interview with jail bird Paris Hilton when she gets out next week.

NBC indignantly protests that they “don’t pay for interviews.” However, it does seem that they pay the Hilton family other fees for access to Paris’s baby pictures.

ABC, the less virtuous of the two networks, had offered a straight $100,000 for the interview, but was told they were “not even in the same galaxy” as NBC.

So why would they want to be in that galaxy anyway, unless of course, they wanted to just drop the news charade anyway and just admit the news, for network TV, is just entertainment?

That theory would seem to be borne out by the recent installation of ABC’s Barbara Walters’s star on the Hollywood sidewalk.