There are more posts for threads about current events related to celebrities such as Michael Phelps having smoked marijuana and Rhianna being beat up then there are in thread such as Australia's fires and the (Most recent)Plane crash in New York. Discuss your own stupidity.
Not necessarily our stupidity but the media's in general. That whole Rhianna story thing is everywhere I go, "Chris Brown Apologizes" "Chris Brown may serve time in prison" "Chris Brown picks his nose" (lol) But seriously, this shouldnt serve as a suprise. Remember Paris Hilton getting arrested? Every news station had something to say about that. Or the whole pornstar Anna Nicole Smith death. I know its sad someone died, and I wouldnt wish it on anyone, but that story was covered for THREE WEEKS. She was whore (literally) who overdosed on prescription drugs! Its not just us, its a problem our entire society needs to get over.
Well said. Celebrities just happen to be more "important" when it comes to media. The plane crash wouldve been a bigger deal if a celebrity died but it would be a bigger deal that the celebrity died, not the other passengers. We need to take society and soak it in kerosene
The problem is with the rich and famous, or rather, with our long-held fascination with them. It has been ingrained into our societies ever since the Medieval period, when the whims of a rich and powerful person - a lord or king - would literally decide the fate of thousands. Over time, people got used to being at first wary, and then curious as to what the rich would do, and eventually, as the rich got more and more petty, the tabloids picked it up (along with the whole yellow journalism thing - making up stories or causing them if there were none), and it just kinda snowballed. I think, personally, we need all the major newspapers and tabloids gutted of their managing staff and replaced with people who care about real issues, real people, and real news. I'm not saying government takeovers or political agendas, but putting relevant issues foremost in the attentions of the world, like the AIDS epidemic in Africa +all the recurring famines there, all the various issues confronting Native Americans (government still not giving them their land, poverty, high alcohol and drug rates, high suicide rates, and the destruction of their culture - some tribes have lost their languages entirely), natural disasters such as the volcano that has a thread here, and the fires in Australia, wars worldwide, from Iraq to all the continuous brush fires that pop up in Africa, to the doings of the [possibly insane] rulers of Iran and North Korea, the countless victims of mostly unreported crimes like rape and domestic violence, the continuing scourge of cancer and the search for a cure, etc etc. It doesn't matter if a story was already done on the topic; if it is a genuinely important one, throw it in the publics faces over and over again until something has been done. The only celebrities worth talking about outside of dedicated channels (E!, for instance) are political leaders and, if we had any, philosophical leaders, like all the great philosophers of the ancient world - the great thinkers. tl;dr: There are plenty of f*cked up things in the world without worrying about what one celebrity does to another. Get back to REAL news.
I think that people dont worry as much about the fires because its not putting them in a "potentually harmful" situation. If the fires were to come closer to them then they would care alot more about it. But thats just my option...
It's potentially harmful to SOMEONE, and I bet you anything that the newspapers and shows in Australia, if you were to look at the sheer volume of news that has come out since they started, have a LOT more articles about celebrities than about those fires.
It's funny that I live in Northern Ireland and was the first one to post on the fires in Australia and the (most recent) plane crash in New York, go figure.
Most times when I see something about a celebrity in the newspaper, it disgusts me. The front page, "Shocking celebrity scandal." Then a few pages in, it has a much shorter story about the tainted peanuts or some other cause of death. What a world.
Yea, no kidding. If the tabloids really want to run articles about celebrity alien abduction or some crap, let them, but keep celebrities OUT of the REAL papers unless they really do something bad, like knowingly spread a plague, or try for world conquest, or something.
Changing society starts with changing you. I've never heard of a law that makes caring about celebrities mandatory. Blaming "society" is an immature excuse.
