It's no surprise this story is getting more public interest than the war. People are demoralized by the war. The Anna Nicole story is a fascinating mix of rags-to-riches, greed, adultery, addiction, and surgically enhanced mammary glands. What more do you need??

Wow. Even September 11, 2001 wasn't in the top 5! I guess when you have to decide on big landmark buildings being destroyed over the death of someone with big boobs, the latter wins out bar none.

I understand how you feel about the fact that Smith dies and the media goes nuts. But the harsh truth is, and you'll all want to punch me for being this honest, the Iraq war has gotten real boring. Think about it, someone we'll call a terrorist blows up a humvee and kills some American GI's. It's not headline news because it happens every single day of the week practically. Their mutilated bodies don't land in our yards, their blood doesn't spatter our clothes, we don't see the reality of their death in any truly tangible way so... on the whole we don't care.

Now, some big boobed gold digging drunk dies and well, you have yourself something that the 15-minute news men love. This kind of story wins ratings, sells newspapers and magazines, and with that new Toyota Camry's or whatever else the advertisers are trying to flog. Her death is money today, so the press, the bloggers, and the whole damn world will know her name today and for a few days.

"I understand how you feel about the fact that Smith dies and the media goes nuts. But the harsh truth is, and you'll all want to punch me for being this honest, the Iraq war has gotten real boring..."

Let me add:

Libby trial exposing the media shills for what they are, Waxman starting hearings on BushCo and Blackwater, Anthro. Global Warming getting play, Iraq is a disaster, helicopters starting to be shot down like Soviets in Afghanistan, two failed wars, we shipped $Bns in dollars on pallets to end up in the hands of terrists...

Thank God that something happened to take the media's mind off of their failures to the Murrican public!

Best,

D

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D

It's an interesting story which I believe has ties to government scandal which may or may not come to light. I'm sure there are some powerful people involved in this story. Did Anna Nicole's drug habit do her in or was she murdered?

I wish people weren’t so mean. Although I did not really care for Anna Nicole or her antics, I had/have complete compassion and empathy for any fellow human that is that far from their spirit in life. Sadly, she never discovered her true self, and was led around by others chasing some false and selfish dream of their own. When people are so uneducated and/or so abused by other humans they rarely get/find the chance to pull themselves up from the negativity they experienced throughout their lives. All that are involved—be at peace—be human. Be the change we want to see in the world~Ghandi

There are some sick people out there. Someone killed her son and then her for her money. It is a new low for mankind.

News is what people want to read about and Iraq is not new. Anna's death was truly news and she herself extremely sexy. Sex is more interesting than warfare. What is surprising about this?

The American people get the media coverage they deserve. The average American has little interest in foreign affairs and what's happening outside their front yard. Dumbed down news for dumbed down America. Simple as that.

It's interesting to think that the number of people who deride the media attention to Anna Nicole's death are actually contributing to that attention.

The Media is loving the end of this young woman's tragic Chaotic life. No one seems to be above picking the remains of her life to bits like a pack of blood thirsty hyenas. That poor little baby girl will they not be satisfied till they devour her too? This child deserves to live her life and be the one remaining part of Anna Nicole's life that isn't tainted by the media vultures and the like. This child needs to be with someone who will shield her from this insanity. People get a hold of yourselves get a life of your own. Worry about your own skeletons and try to make things right before you too leave this earth. Think about it......

There are many who like to pin the recent media frenzy over Anna Nicole Smith on the "dilution" of American media, and a celebrity-obsessed popular culture. It's easy to think of this event in those terms, what ANS represents is something most intellectuals hate about America. However, I believe what is truly shocking about this story (and thus why those news networks have spent so much time covering it) is the place ANS occupied in our collective psyche. She was a fixture to many of us, someone who was never really taken seriously, someone who every once in while would pop up, to the delight of the tabloids, and collective sighs and head-shaking of the cynical intellectuals. In this manner, she ceased to be a real person, and became something of a symbol, not a human being. While what she represented may be debated, when a symbol dies, is suddenly extinguished in the way that ANS was, there is a collective, cultural recoil. This "recoil" is what the news networks responded to. If you actually took a poll, I'm sure few to no people seriously believe that ANS is more important than Iraq, or global warming. Yet her sudden demise so suprised America, the excessive news coverage really isn't that suprising, nor should it be condemmed. NBC's ANS coverage doesn't represent the further denegration of our culture, it is merely the knee-jerk reaction to the destruciton of something we collectively took for granted. And for those intellectuals out there: don't worry, in a week or so, the conspriacy theories and autopsy results will fall back into the tabloids and Anderson Cooper's 360, where you think they belong.

Anna Nicole Smith always wanted to be the Marilyn Monroe of the 21st Century.

I can hardly wait for the conspiracy theorists to involve Ted Kennedy. Elton John can get Bernie to write some new lyrics to the dead blonde anthem.
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Goodbye Vickie Lynn, we hardly knew you at all.

It was more than just big boobs that were lost
When Anna Nicole went down the tubes.

A Texas Billionaire
was saved from his dispair

when you warmed up his bed
and the pablum he got fed.

Oh well, I am not a poet. I am sure Bernie can do better.

Wow, and the fact that this post gets more comments than almost any other post I've ever seen on MoJo Blog makes a number of people's poitns for them.

In response to one previious comment:

"News" is not what people want to see. That's called entertainment. If you have to resort to statements "like that's what people want to see" or references to ratings ti justify coverage, then you are talking about entertainment, not news.

Yeah, its hard not to feel dirty even responding, but I, too, have something to say. I get tired of the trite observation that Americans get the news they want [or crave] because that supposes something that I think only a naive person would believe: that the media actually is beholden to the public. It isn't beholden to us nor does it really reflect us; it reflects concepts that think-groups, marketing analysts and psychiatrists have cooked up about us a long time ago. Now people continue to get jobs rehashing that shit to various advertisers and media moguls and keeping this sad and very unrelated to our true psyche cycle going. Save your minds from needless and untrue observations about your neighbors; the rating system doesn't mean anything. Put that on a post-it on the desk in your brain and refresh youselves now and again. After all, when the 'big stories' hit, they hit on all networks so even going by the primitive Nielson method, it appears to suggest that all of us care A LOT.
And in response to the comment that the media has hit a new low - mud is mud and doesn't rise and fall like sea water.

It was wrong the way the media used a e-news cilp to demonize Anna Nicole' mother. Anna's mother never accused her of murdering her son Daniel! She told her to be careful of the people that were around. she told her daughter she loved her, but the major media networks continued to show this negative video and all these so call professional guest profiling Anna's mother as a abusive mother, and Howard Stern and Larry Birkhead in a more postive image. The mess that went on in that court room and that judge's decision was wrong. Howard Stern will benefit from Anna's death and so will Birkhead. Howard Stern has close ties to media moguls such e-news and it appears that they are helping Howard Stern indirectly. If Virgie Arthor was such a bad mother why did Anna Nicole let her raise her son Daniel, for seven years? I guess all those professional therapist an psychologist forgot to ask that question. The media know's that most people will believe what ever they see on the news.

So many Marilyn Monroe simliarities -

Way too many questions surrounding this thing. Why doesn't or couldn't Anna's mystery nurse call 911 him/herself (no cell phone, room phones don't allow 911 calls)?

Who was in Anna's suite before her death and did any one look in on Anna after whoever else was in the suite might have left Anna last or how long did the nurse leave Anna alone after illness and the accompanying head injury?

What was Anna's 'nurse' doing before apparently only checking on Anna midday and after Anna had earlier suffered a head injury in a bathtub
fall (left alone to bath) when Anna seemingly needed and hired a nurse?

Is this nurse actually a nurse?

Was Anna's bodyguard's wife the 'nurse' and if not since his wife called Mo who then drove across town, arrive, administered more CPR, how is it that Mrs. Mo phoned Mo and not 9-1-1 (having said to Mo on her 'cell' phone that she couldn't call 911)?

How is it that Mo's wife needed Mo there as opposed to calling 9-1-1 and only after Mo arrived, he stopped his wife's giving CPR, took over CPR 'on the bed', then failing at that, he placed Anna on the floor to properly give CPR?

And since apparently Mo's wife was the 'nurse', how is it that she 'failed' to properly act on so many things (i.e.; leaving Anna alone for how long, not recognizing the need to and calling a doctor, 'refusing' to call 911, and was fairly incompetent at performing CPR)????

Why hasn't the autopsy at least disclosed the actual indicated time of death as it is obvious Anna died before paramedics arrived (how long was she dead before the 'nurse' did anything)?

Isn't that one of the first things determined??

Has the nurse been tested for drugs and what is this nurse's history of drug abuse him/her self?

How is it that Stern or anybody else assure Anna was being cared for by competent people when she was obviously so ill that she'd then hit her head in a bath tub fall?

Who or what kind of person do you need to be before these questions
are asked?

The whole thing stinks.

rumours are starting to fly that Anna Nicole Smith had a Psychic and still does? there is a website about it www.annanicolesmithspsychictellsall.com, has anyone else heard about this? I think if the Psychic starts to spill Her secrets that Howard, Larry and Mommie dearest better take cover, and if the truth comes out about everything then maybe Anna and Daniel can rest in peace and concentrate on watching over their beloved Dannielynn!

An inquiry into Anna Nicole
Smith's death has revealed that a drug overdose was responsible

If Virgie Arthur wasn't abusive why didn't Danny EVER want to go back!!!!