Who Da Boss

This is utterly bizarre. Is this postmodernism reaching its inevitable end?

It's from The Washington Post which, as far as I remember, requires registration, so here's a brief outline of the story:

It's an interview with Tony Danza, that's Tony Danza who used to be in Who's The Boss, a pretty lame 80s (?) American sitcom. And he's asked his opinion on Paris Hilton. Get the question he's asked:

You used to host your own TV talk show. Considering all the hype surrounding the Paris Hilton interview and the jockeying to score the first one, would you have gone for a chance to talk to her?

Is that the most tenuous link to a crap question ever? It's like Paris Hilton's in the news, I have to ask a question about her, how can I make it seem perfectly natural? Dreadful. And then Tony in some irony short circuit starts talking about how celebrity is ruining news...

I was in an airport [last Wednesday] when that whole Paris Hilton interview was going down. I was watching "The Situation Room" and they were talking about this interview that hadn't happened yet and then counting down to it. I'll never watch CNN again.

I mean it. I think something's happened to news and entertainment. News has become entertainment. They don't give you what you need, they give you what you want. And entertainment has taken a turn, too. People aren't much interested in virtuosity. They just want to feel better when they watch something and that changes it all. So I don't know, maybe that's why Broadway was so great and I'm going to Vegas.

Can we also see the beginning of a trend towards everyone knowing where they were were when Paris was... Although Tony's took the wrong choice, surely everyone will remember where they were when she got readmitted to prison but, come on Tony, the Larry King interview? get some perspective dude.