Who gives an effing rip #1

It was given the main headline. I found it placed on the homepage of one of the most popular email servers in the U.S.
Subject of this article? Oprah Winfrey's weight.
For those of you who care for a more educated and intellectual world: Please don't give these tabloid articles the satisfaction of another hit from your clicking on their links. It adds to the webpage's ____{degrading adjective here}___ visitor counter and thus encouraging the unfortunate notion that the general public do, indeed, care about how many pounds Oprah has packed on (or off).

Sometimes I wonder what outer-space aliens would think if they were to come and observe our society.