Entertainment news has a special place in my heart. The corner reserved for unconditional, permanent bias. I guess I have never really understood the point of taking ordinary people and highlighting each and every aspect of their lives. Celebrities and other television personalities are ordinary people, really. For some reason, however, our society is obsessed with getting to know each and every little dirty detail about various aspects of thier lives. Do we really want to portray the image that being 15 and enrolled in rehab is a cool thing?
The 90's kids and beyond, mostly, have lost touch with reality and tend to lead their lives and draw their standards based on what the People Magazine or Us Weekly has to comment about someone they relate to in the limelight. Journalists and writers need to focus on grabbing the attention from all age groups, not just 40s and above, to educate them on the current status of the globe. It's amazing to me that news magazines such as Newsweek and Time have such a targeted audience by age. Mr. Zakaria, can I get an ay on that?
Foreign affairs and political environments is what we should focus on for the younger generation, instead of the newest diet on the block or who has the most cellulite in South Beach. Luckily for government and tricky politicians, their oversights and bad judgments often go unnoticed due to distraction.
Drug addictions and love affairs, marriage settlements and sloppy relationships shadow true facts and reality. I guess the point I'm making is that by focusing our energy and attention on useless, inconsequential, brainless dramatic facts, we are doing exactly what the corrupt state officials, or skewed lobbyists want us to do - not focus on them. Some sort of a wake up call to hold our voted officials accountable is needed. Perhaps the gossip columnists can 'give back to the community' by contributing an article of two of substance and actual information.
Wishful thinking is better than disappointing acceptance, I suppose.
2 comments:
Shrewed politicians never want education as educated people would never want them.
The Gex X Y or Z or whatever we call it, the youth is more concerned these days about fictitious issues and are true believers of ignorance is bliss theory.
The media is just feeding stuff that would sell. In any case serious issues and stuff don't sell in a conventional manner these days. You need a commercial movie like 3 idiots or taare zameen pe to send a social message of education.
However we may not want it but meaningful stuff has to be mixed with useless crap as a package in order to communicate to the Gen X, Y or whatever :)
Well said..Nothing wrong with useless crap packaged with meaningful "stuff", except that it doesn't happen often enough. You're right, movies are a good way to communicate a message, but they need to focus this strategy for everyday news and current issues. Being a journalist/media is a social service that has turned into profitable ventures...just like politicans have converted public service into a business...
human nature surpasses righteous decisions, or something like that
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