Tonght when i sighned on to AIM, AIM Today's webpage came up and there is always i guess you could say like teenage interested headlines running across, and when i looked one was a picture of Miley Cyrus eating a french frie. The caption read Hannah's Hungry (clever alliteration) and i clicked on the link and this website is dedicated to themed pictures of celebrities. And when you look to the left them have such topics as, celebrities working out, celebrites wihtout make-up, celebriteis at the beach, embarrasing pics of celebrities. And the question i have is who really cares? like no one else has had a bad picture before or no one else has been caught off guard all sweaty and gross at the gym or who wants to see 13 pics of celebrities at the gas station i mean WHO CARES. I really think the paparazzi and the 'supply and demand' of what paparrazi think people want to see has gotten way out of proportion and now is really teatering on stupid.
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I just posted on Sarah's blog about how there are over 6 billion human's on this earth, and your post relates to this as well. Why do these individuals matter and what makes them so different from us, as you said the topics on the website are all things every one of us do every day so why are they so special. We all need role models and some/thing to look up to it seems like and so the job of the media is to give us these role models whether they be actors or sports super stars.
I think that the reason people like celebrities is that celebrities distract people from their own lives. If sombody is not happy with what they have or what they have accomplished, they can simply distract themselfs and pay too much attention to the celebrities, immersing themselves in a better life. Many celebrities are no different as people, they just lead more liesurely lifestyles, lifestyles that many of us might wish to have for our own.
I agree with you that everyone is so celebrity obcessed. I really don't read the tabloids or gossip magazines because I don't care. The tabloids have gotten way out of hand and nobody wants to see pictures of people you don't know pumping gas
M/M,
Interesting connections here between H's hunger and the paparazzi's hunger. I also like the supply and demand connections: the economics of pop culture?
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