Media Chatter: Suri Cruise Has Public Meltdown

I saw this headline on the Internet page I opened up the this morning: Suri Cruise Has a Public Meltdown!

C’mon. Is this REALLY newsworthy?! The only thing newsworthy about this story is that the media feels they need to cover it. Should the media announce when my kid is having a tantrum? She is 3 years old, so what do you expect? Ok, so she always looks like an American Girl doll with her pretty (and uber expensive) designer duds, but do you think she cares about that when her mommy tells her she can’t have that ice cream she’s been eyeing? Nope. Insert 3 year old tantrum. In situations like this, she could care less that the paparazzi is always on their heels, watching every move they make. In situations like this, she is just a kid.

So tell me again why the media needs to waste prime space on the Internet to tell us this story? I get that they want to show us how celebs are just normal people, and like I said in a previous post, I love learning that stuff. But I want to hear about how celeb moms handle their kids and the daily struggles they create. So the real story here should have been how Stepford wifey Katie Holmes managed Suri’s meltdown. I want to see if she starts to count “1-2-3″ and gives her a time out right there in the middle of Time Square. Or if she starts yelling at her out of the kind of pure frustration that only a mother of a toddler knows.

Yep. Media gurus, paparazzi stalkers, you’ve mucked it up again. Next time, get the REAL story. We see toddlers melting down all day long, so please don’t feel the need to share more toddler tantrums with us. Instead, tell us how our rich and famous counterparts get through it.

Thanks,

What do you think when you see stories like this in the media?
Want more? You can see my Media Chatter post on the Gosselin drama here