I'll spend 20 days in jail for this!

[tornado]

$1 million for a post-slammer interview with Ultra-talented Paris Hilton.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2911932&campaign=rss&source=NCAAHeadlines

PS-- rumor also has it that Hugh Hefner is also offering up to $10 mil for Paris to do a spread in his rag

http://people.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1320087.php

[Average Joe]

NBC will lose a ton of respectability by paying that amount, a million dollars, for an interview.
It sets a horrible example, not to mention that spoiled little Paris is already treated like royalty by the ratings driven media who have turned her into a star even though she isn't even noteworthy for anything.
I always laugh when someone in the media seems puzzled over the celebutante-Paris Hilton phenomenon, when it is a complete creation of their own doing.
If they didn't put her name on every front page and devote full hours news coverage to her daily foibles, nobody would even know who she is.
They do the same for Anna Nichole, Britney, Lindsey, and a few others. At least when they did it with Princess Di they could use the argument she was somebody.
The trash media people have discovered a cheap way to create the need for their own services, but now the previously respected media like NBC is getting in on it.
The so-called objective media is falling flat on its face by paying for these "stories", but even worse is their tendency to try to drive their own political agenda.
Note who most of them give to:
"Study:Journalists Donate Overwhelmingly to Democrats"

http://newsbusters.org/node/13630

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06222007/news/nationalnews/media_gives__liberally_nationalnews_charles_hurt_bureau_chief.htm