Thursday, December 27, 2007

Can the Tabloid Media be Any Dumber??

Hotel mogul Barron Hilton has decided to follow in footsteps of other billionaires and donate most of his fortune to charity rather than to pass it on to his heirs. 97% of his estimated 2.3 billion dollar fortune will go to worthy causes. For those too lazy to do the math, that means that over 60 million dollars will go to his chosen heirs.

So the tabloid media headlines the story that it's Paris Hilton who is losing out. Pardon me, but did you idiots happen to be unaware of the fact that the man has eight children of his own, without worrying about his grandchildren? Would Paris really have gotten any large chunk of this man's fortune in any event, given his evident disdain for her antics? I think not.