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A World Without Paris?
Thursday March 1, 2007


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How long can the media survive without Paris Hilton? Well, if the Associated Press is any measure, just one week.

That's how long the AP planned to conduct an experimental "blackout" of all news about Paris.

They wanted to see what would happen if they simply ignored all things Hilton, including her riotous 26th birthday celebration in LA this weekend.

Would anyone miss the celebutante?

"It turned out that people noticed plenty -- but not in the way that might have been expected," the AP said in a story today. "None of the tens of thousands of media outlets that depend on AP called in asking for a Paris Hilton story. No one felt a newsworthy event had been ignored. (To be fair, nothing too out-of-the-ordinary happened in the Hilton universe.)"

Luckily the ban ended just in time for Paris to get busted by the cops for driving with a suspended license. And the heiress' gifts just keep on giving.

Page Six today is all hot and bothered by Hilton's four-year-old sex tape with Rick Salomon, saying the two were seen at Patrick Whitesell's post-Oscars party "bragging how they each made $1 million from One Night in Paris."

If idle chatter about a moldy sexy tape is newsworthy, we likely haven't heard the last of Paris Hilton yet.

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Should Usmagazine.com ban all Paris coverage?








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