Will it never end? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I'm sick to death of the news saga about the model who died in the US. Will it never end? I don't understand what the interest is, apart from voyeurism. I'm not reading the accounts, but it seems I can't get away from being confronted by each new twist. Its the same with Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, Tom Cruise and Jolie. I wish I could have a filter on my news sources that screens them all out. I know I can filter to a certain extent by choosing just 'world news', for example, but its a very dry, non-graphical way of getting news coverage. But I am thinking more of a filter that you set to exclude all stories using a particular search name or word. I guess there is an economic reason why online newspapers push these stories, so they would probably not care to provide such a filter.