Pop it like it's hot.

We are in living in a land that I like to call Capitol Hillywood. There's a fine line between US Weekly and USA Today, between Congress and Best Dressed, between the Bill of Rights and Billboard. Are elections the same as box office earnings? Is CNN not that far off from TMZ? How do politics and pop culture collide, and should they?

Pop culture and politics both have their place and value. However, the two are blended together in such a way that it can be hard to distinguish the two. And if the two have morphed to become interchangeable, it is at the detriment to both. Politics have become more trivial, while popular culture has become more urgent. This blog seeks to examine how the news is presented, and how to make that gray area a bit more black and white.