Written by David Morgan

 

Journalist Mika Brzezinski was named woman of the week by a British web site, has been invited to give a symposium on journalism in Scotland, and has been offered her own morning news show on MSNBC, primarily because of her indignant refusal to cover a Paris Hilton story, says MSN.

 

Upon discovering that the top news story of the day was about Paris Hilton and her release from jail rather than a more significant story about a Republican congressman attacking President Bush, Brzezinski became irritated and threatened to set the script ablaze with a cigarette lighter (had she been better with a lighter she might have succeeded before her co-anchor seized the papers). Minutes later when a new script was handed to her with a Paris Hilton news story on top, she walked the papers over to the shredder and disposed of them.

 

Though Brzezinski was not the first journalist to express contempt for the media circus around Paris Hilton (Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, and Brian Williams have all spoken out to different extents), she perhaps had the best flair for the dramatic. Have a look.