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CulT of the CelebritY...

I can honestly say that I do not consume celebrity-driven media. I am not a person not a person to buy a magazine or newspaper just because of a particular celebrity being reported about, however, I do read issues regarding certain celebrities on the internet, for example if a celebrity is featured in a up-coming film or if they have done something drastic, e.g. Britney Spears shaving her head!

When considering national tabloid newspapers, audiences are always presented with a story of celebrity, despite how irrelevant it may be. There are also pages dedicated to just celebrity news, i.e. in ‘The Mirror’ you have ‘3am.’ Even on the internet, The Mirror website has is an entire page called ‘Showbiz’ packed with celebrity gossip, as does The Sun with ‘Bizarre.’

This differs significantly from articles in newspapers in the 1990’s, where news was centered on worldwide affairs; celebrities would most probably never be featured on the front page.

posted by Dinni @ 9:32 pm