Celebrity Culture

I remember back in the 1970s when People magazine came out from Time-Life (or whatever it was called back there).  I wondered who was going to read that treacle.  But I also thought in the back of my mind that, yes, this will be a successful enterprise.

Now we have many celebrity magazines such as Us and OK and who knows what else (I don't pay that much attention).  It seems a lot of people simply read about celebrities.

But now it seems the mainstream media is getting in on the celebrity craze.  Over the past two days the follow celebrity stories have have shown up in my news feeds:

Cory Haim died of a drug overdose.

Charlie Sheen is out of rehab and going back to work on his show "Two and a Half Men"

Lindsay Lohan is suing E*Trade over it's ad featuring a baby named Lindsay.

And Farah Fawcett was "dissed" by not being part of the "In Memorial" part of the Oscars.

(Except fo the Cory Haim link, those are not the original places I saw the stories.)

And these came across AP and Reuters news feeds.

Has the culture of the celebrity magazine reached into the main news media?  The Democrats in Congress are trying to socialize 1/5th of the economy and this is what the news media covers?  No wonder people are idiots.

Comments

[Ron_in_CO]

Is the popularity of the celebrity rags the cause or is it just the effect? Could it be that our public education system is not producing critical thinkers? You're right, though, that the msm just makes the situation worse. The press seems to only want to act as a mouthpiece for the Democrats these days.