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CNN Dumps Michael Moore For Paris Hilton

Yesterday, CNN proudly announced that it has scored the first post-jail interview with Paris Hilton. To make room for Paris on Wednesday, CNN canceled its interview with Michael Moore about his new health care documentary SiCKO:

Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton will give her first post-jail interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday, the show’s spokeswoman said on Saturday.

“She will be on for the hour,” Bridget Leininger told Reuters. “We had (filmmaker) Michael Moore originally scheduled for that time.”

CNN, the “most trusted name in Paris news,” continues to sink to new lows in its “assault on reason.” Hilton is the latest “serial obsession,” though the network recently hired a reporter devoted to “covering things like Britney, as well as the Michael Jackson memorabilia.” Now CNN has ditched coverage of America’s broken health care system in favor of an hour-long interview of an incarcerated socialite.

ThinkProgress spoke with Moore’s team, who confirmed that CNN has not yet rescheduled the interview. SiCKO, which opens nationwide this Friday, sheds light on the health care crisis that the media covers poorly, when it covers it at all.

The contempt that the cable news channels show for ordinary working people is breathtaking. What Michael Moore is talking about is a society wide failure to care for the least of us, a supposedly Christian virtue. Who of us really gives a flying fuck about a wealthy celebrity with a drinking and driving problem? We're too goddamn busy trying to keep a roof over our heads and a couple of meals a day on the table.

One of the big class divides in this country is between the elite media and the working class. They are all wealthy and don't have a clue about what the rest of us are going through.