Don't mess with my e-mail
Putting things into perspective for anyone with privacy issues, Paris Hilton is reported to be deeply upset because someone has hacked into her private e-mail account. This priceless quote from an accolyte: “She was pretty upset about it. It’s one thing to have people looking at your sex tapes, but having people reading your personal e-mails is a real invasion of privacy.”
Fox fouls up
There is something satisfying about watching a detestable institution shoot itself in the foot. That is exactly what Fox TV appears to have done with "Who's Your Daddy?", its latest reality television offering in which an adopted woman has to pick out her biological father from a panel of imposters, for a $100,000 prize. The show is a ratings flop and many people have decided to simply switch channels. It's so good to see there is a limit to the public's appetite for ritualised humiliation.