In these days of horrific over-exaggeration from our media industries, we get bad influences from our "stars, idols and hero's", because of the media throwing their reputation in the alleyways because they do one little thing human, and are expected to never recover. In an episode of South Park, they showed Britney Spears and how closely the media covers her. At some part in the episode she realises how intrusive they are on her children, divorce and cancer so she blows her head off with a shotgun, but somehow lived but could only mumble gibberish, yet they still report on her and her fashion issues. Why do the media think that it matters if A celebrity like Tiger woods has cancer, Leonardo dicaprio does a backflip into a pool and goes to the hospital for a concussion, or Justin beiber smokes a ciggarette for the first time in his life? Around this month and several others, an area in egypt is going into anarchy and civil war, yet we apparently care not. I want to blame the media for making society so clueless as it is these days, but that would be giving them TOO much credit. The time they spend following celebrities is what everyone wants to hear, if they didn't the nobody would pay attention to them and we would be watching real news. So it comes to my mind, is the media really the problem about being too intrusive, or is it us pushing the media to do so?
South Park once did an episode on Britney Spears and how closely the media covers her. At one point their intrusiveness in her divorce and separation of her kids causes her to blow the top part of her head off with a shotgun. She somehow manages to survive the blast and recovers, continuing her life as a celebrity and going to her concerts. Despite the fact that most of her skull is missing and the only sounds she can make are gurgling noises, the only thing that the news reports on is how she's dressed.Does it matter if Steve Jobs has cancer? Does it matter if Tiger Woods is doing well? Just this month, there are massive protests spanning the United States, Russia, the Middle East, and Libya is in a state of civil war. Yet, somehow, they manage to squeeze in entire segments on cable news about Lindsey Lohan having to go to jail for stealing a necklace she easily could have purchased.It makes me want to blame cable news for dumbing down society, but I know that's not the problem. The amount of time spent talking about celebrities is more or less equivalent to how much people want to hear about it. Cable is designed to entertain the lowest common denominator. People are stupid, and are much more interested in hearing about rich people than fights over civil liberty in Wisconsin, or anywhere else in the world. It has to be an envy thing in their psych - "Even though I'm fat, stupid, and miserable, these great names with millions of dollars and beautiful bodies still find reason to suffer." Can you feel the schadenfreude?
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