Celebrities and Pointless "Fame"?

[Edwin]

Why have I been hearing "We no longer will accept celebrities becoming famous over nothing after this" and "Celebrity culture in Britain is disgusting" blah blah.. When the people that complain are the type that buy the red-top newspapers and watch big brother constantly? Heres the solution: if you don't bloody well like it, don't buy the red-tops, don't watch big brother and don't vote for big brother. They don't realise that they are making revenue for the celebrity machines anyway. If they don't like it then why are they complaining and trying to ruin it for the people that like "celebs" that get everything for nothing?

Ah well, i'm just trying to get the debate going here...

[James]

I doubt the people that complain about pointless celebrities buy the red-tops - I don't, I think they are awful in the effect they have had, the way they report news etc. Britain is the only country that has tabloid newspapers like these also.

I think the events of this Big Brother has shown that there is maybe a nasty side to the pursuit of pointless fame. Is it a coincidence that the four people at the centre of the bullying are four pointlessly famous people (more or less) while the ones that achieved success through talent or work have generally come across as nice people?

Also people worry about the example these famous for being famous people are setting to young people.

[Edwin]

Originally posted by James
I doubt the people that complain about pointless celebrities buy the red-tops - I don't, I think they are awful in the effect they have had

But the thing is, everyone blames the celebrities, they never bother blaming the people that constantly write stories about them or the people that fund this shyte. Which I think is unfair because the 'celebrities' are just taking an oppurtunity to make money, something that most of us would do in their position anyway.

[ttw]

Originally posted by Edwin
Originally posted by James
I doubt the people that complain about pointless celebrities buy the red-tops - I don't, I think they are awful in the effect they have had

But the thing is, everyone blames the celebrities, they never bother blaming the people that constantly write stories about them or the people that fund this shyte. Which I think is unfair because the 'celebrities' are just taking an oppurtunity to make money, something that most of us would do in their position anyway.

This is true and I never thought of it in this way, but on the flip side of it, those writing the stories are also just trying to make money too - and it's a pretty easy way of doing it.

[James]

Yeah, your right it's the media industry that rewards it.

[spacebandit]

Originally posted by Edwin
Originally posted by James
I doubt the people that complain about pointless celebrities buy the red-tops - I don't, I think they are awful in the effect they have had

But the thing is, everyone blames the celebrities, they never bother blaming the people that constantly write stories about them or the people that fund this shyte. Which I think is unfair because the 'celebrities' are just taking an oppurtunity to make money, something that most of us would do in their position anyway.


Just becasue someone sleeps with a footballer - is that "celebrity"

Just becasue some is boy/girlfriend of someone who once appeared on a reality tv show - is that "celebrity"

Giving birth to someone who appears on TV - is that celebrity?

Pull the other one, they get together with the media to manipulate coverage, the "celebrities" agents are in bed with the papers and magazines, planting stories left right and centre.

Just because these people are stupendously thick, uneducated and inconsiderate of anyone outside of the cliques that they form has come back to kick some of them in the rear is no-ones fault but their own

[rex3]

I would just like to say, without any offence, (which to some, may seem like it becuase iv been attacking jade) that the media has destroyed all the values that made the white-british pensioners so friendly and kind.

the media, has led people to believe that binge drinking is good.

the media has started race wars, to rally the ignorance for foriegn wars.

the media has made out that being dumb like jade is the social high life!!!!!

the media has made out that educated people, are snobs who are uptight!!!!

the media has disregarded and f'ed up any english heritage and blamed the ethnic minorities for it

the media has used sychological tactics to set the mind sets of white-british people, in a way to control HOW they would think, and what other white people think, so they should think like that. Making a collective form

the media is the one responsible for decreasing community integration in the uk




were ever we are what ever we do were always guided by an foriegn institute not even owned by english white people. who have agendas of taking money from britain and leaving it to dry up

[Edwin]

Originally posted by spacebandit
Just becasue someone sleeps with a footballer - is that "celebrity"

They sleep with a footballer? It's not a crime is it? I blame the people who write the stories, do the interviews and the fools who fund this stuff. The person who sleeps with a footballer is nothing but a product of it all.

Originally posted by spacebandit
Just becasue some is boy/girlfriend of someone who once appeared on a reality tv show - is that "celebrity"

Giving birth to someone who appears on TV - is that celebrity?

"Celebrity" is a subjective word. If you do not believe they are celebrities then that's fine, someone can sing in the local church and be classified as a celebrity to some, others have to be in a hollywood movie. Still, I don't see why the celebrity is the one that the blame is placed upon, after all, they never called themself a celebrity did they? It's like saying it's my fault if someone calls me a "tosser"

Originally posted by spacebandit
Pull the other one, they get together with the media to manipulate coverage, the "celebrities" agents are in bed with the papers and magazines, planting stories left right and centre.

And that's how the media works. If you have such a problem with it then why not just ignore the papers?

Originally posted by spacebandit
Just because these people are stupendously thick, uneducated and inconsiderate of anyone outside of the cliques that they form has come back to kick some of them in the rear is no-ones fault but their own

There we go with the blame game...