There is no such thing as entertainment news anymore.

All there is left is "me, me, me, me" and "I, I, I, I." "How does this entertainment news affect me, the person writing this story?" "Here's the little bit of news I have, now let me tell you how I would interpret the story if I were you, because I'm obviously better than you."

It's grating, degrading to readers and does nothing but inflate the already-huge egos of those writing, oftimes so-called journalists who do not have any wit or class in writing anyway.

Where the hell have the editors gone? Whatever happened to just reporting the facts and letting the audience decide on the merit of the story, instead of guiding the audience as to what they should be thinking about any given development in the entertainment industry? No wonder we are, as a nation, getting dumber. We are allowing pricks and **** force feed us our opinions in ways the "news" media ever has before, and this has to stop.

This article is not just about PerezHilton.com, though that Web site, and the man running it, is a very good place to start. The mass media is now calling Hilton "The Queen of All Things Media", "The Queen of Mean" and "The Naughty Boy With the Heart of Gold." Heart of gold? Seriously? Devil-In-Carnet is more like it. This is a man who has made it his life's mission to take down celebrities, created witch-hunts that resulted in celebrities having nervous breakdowns (whether directly or indirectly), and done it all under the guise that it's what the public wants.

One does have to admit that the way Hilton has created a media frenzy is some type of genius. Look at the way his blog entries always refer to him as "We" instead of "I", therefore giving readers the impression that all of his opinions and mean-spiritedness is already popular opinion, not just the thoughts of one very-sad individual who needs to bring down others to make himself feel better. Hilton has also cornered Hollywood, particularly young Hollywood, with his Site. It's almost as if he is telling all of celebrity "You had better not just be nice to me, but embrace me and tell me you love me, otherwise I can, and will, make your life a living hell." And all of young Hollywood is simply going along with it, because Hilton wields such power that he can begin rumors of drug abuse in young celebrity by simply posting a picture of un-manicured nails. Or "out" a celebrity by showing pictures of the person next to a person of the same sex. And millions of eager young tweens and teenagers will giggle and gossip about it, too stupid to care whether it is close to reality or not.

Is no one strong enough to call him out on the vile, disgusting worm that he is? Anyone?

This type of reporting mantra has now seeped into the rest of the entertainment reporting media. Nary an issue of "Variety," "Entertainment Weekly" or "TV Guide" will hit stands without the breaking news stories or features focusing almost as much on the writer as the subject matter. "Here's an article on John Krasinski, and here's how I felt about meeting him. Jealous?" "Don't you just wish you were me on the set of ‘Ugly Betty' right now?" And the editors don't seem to care, or are too busy checking out PerezHilton.com to bother editing their reporters' stories, or just don't care about their staff turning newsmagazines into a self-love rag that might as well serve as Kleenex remnants after all that ego-stroking.

The tipping point that created this opinion column was the addition of Michael Ausiello to "Entertainment Weekly's" staff. While it was possible to ignore Ausiello's constant self-love and "OMG I'm SO uber-amazing" on the "TV Guide" Web site, it is nigh-impossible to avoid this prick on "Entertainment Weekly's" Web site. Besides having a link to his blog ABOVE the "Hollywood Insider" section of the Web site, links to his "articles" are listed in "The Latest News" section of the front page as hard news stories, not self-love blogs.

And because Ausiello continues to get small slivers of entertainment news hours before other Web sites, apparently that is reason enough for EW's editors to let him write whatever he wants about everything. His first blog entry for the Web site was the epitome of self-love, aptly titled "The Top 10 Reasons I Know I'll Do Well at EW!" In it, he managed to name-drop four times and listed the number one reason as "I STILL know things you don't!" Thanks, Michael Ausiello, for telling us in no uncertain terms that you not only have celebrity "friends" and know everything we want to know, but basically telling us you have more worth than us as well.

None of his "stories" feature any less than four references to himself, mostly giving his opinions of the news he is writing. A journalist's job is NOT to give his or her opinion, it is to report the news in an unbiased manner. How difficult would it be to simply write TWO stories, one of which is news-based and the other opinion, posted on his blog or in the EW PopWatch? Is it because Ausiello realizes that no one really cares about him, just the story, and has decided to milk all that tiny iota or power he has to the limit?

As a journalist, it sickens me.

Michael Ausiello, and all the other entertainment journalists who think they are just as important, if not moreso, than the story they are reporting: If you still consider yourself a journalist, attempt to remember your ethics and separate yourself from the story. No one cares about your opinion.