At this writing, Fox News Channel is doing an aerial pursuit of Paris Hilton, who has been ordered back to jail:

Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in her Hollywood Hills home.

"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton, who violated her parole in a reckless driving case. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.

As Don Surber points out, the celebrity heiress has already spent more time in jail than 12 million illegal aliens.

The obsessive cable-news coverage of Paris Hilton (and other dangerous blondes like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan) was discussed Wednesday when the Culture and Media Institute released its report, "The Media Assault on American Values," which observed:

"The more a person watches television, the less likely he will be to accept responsibility for his own life and for his obligations to the people around him."

Even the people who cover it realize how ridiculous it is, as Hot Air's AllahPundit observes:

CNN's viewers are unloading on them for the wall-to-wall coverage of this [nonsense]. The anchors sonorously agree, then go back to covering it.

Sitting around watching TV updates on the latest personal trauma for Miss Hilton is bad for your soul. Reading about her on blogs, however, is good for you.

--Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times

UPDATE 4:40 p.m.: Paris is defended by left-wing lawyer Jeralyn Merritt and ... Tommy Chong? More Hilton blogging at Pirate's Cove, TMZ and My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. And the inimitable Ace of Spades observes:

I'm looking forward to seeing the sheriff that let her go investigated.

I watched a black civil rights guy screaming about different standards of justice for the rich and poor in LA and could not believe the words "Preach it, brother!" escaped my lips. ... It's a weird time. Those in positions of public trust (this guy, McCain-Kennedy-Bush-etc., Nifong) somehow keep managing to unite the left and right against their blatant abuses.

--RSM