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The age of media celebrity faux news


Everything is on the Internet. It is visible in the cable news stations. It has become popular on network news. You can see in the tabloids on newsstands. Everywhere you can see the tragic mistakes of modern celebrity. This is the celebrity bad behavior all the time. Media sensationalized stories of celebrities personnel problems, sad, tragic and created their own fake news industry.

The sight of Paris Hilton to jail created a frenzy of news media two days. Hilton was the number three in the history of cable television. It was the eighth most heavily covered story on the news television channel. However, this false story did ten celebrity cover stories in American newspapers. There was no TV like the media after the death of Anna Nicole Smith. For days about half of the cable news coverage was devoted to its history, making it by far the most heavily covered story for a week on cable.

Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith is no exception. There are plenty of stories about celebrities of the media and paparazzi to exploit the false news. They can choose stories that involve personal matters Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Richie and Britney Spears or new legal issues of OJ Simpson. There seems to be an endless supply of celebrity news media to report.

The media created and distributed fake celebrity news, because it can be packaged to appear to be sensational. It is a known celebrity and therefore, we seem to touch in a personal way. For television media which means scores a bargain price. The panel discussions, speculation, and experts are cheap. The same problem can appear on a cable channel all day or all week.

What does the American public think of all the false celebrity news? The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press completed a new national survey in July 2007. Here are their conclusions: "The overwhelming majority of the population (87%) says celebrity scandals receive too much news coverage, this general criticism is among demographic groups and political issues Virtually no one thinks that there is very little coverage of the scandals celebrities ... "

Who is to blame for celebrity coverage too much? Pew survey states that "most of the points of public media. 54% of those who say celebrity news is covered also believe news organizations are to blame for giving these stories so much coverage. Approximately one third (32%) say that the public is to blame for paying so much attention to them, and another 12% say the media and the public are equally guilty. " In summary, the survey revealed that 87% of Americans feel that celebrity scandals are covered by the media. No one believes that there is too little coverage of celebrities, and 66% believe the media is somehow to blame for the excess coverage. Interestingly, most people under thirty years blamed the public for the coverage of celebrity excess. People over the age of thirty mostly blamed the media.

This obsession with the media the false story of personal problems sometimes celebrities are taking the attention of the media and focus away from important national and international news and events in 2007. This is contributing to the "trivialization" of American society. In fact, it is very worrying that we have heard very little about the U.S. media about the heroic story of Aung San Suu Kyi, despite the recent worldwide attention given to the sad events in Burma (Myanmar). However, we have heard too much about personal problems and problems of our celebrities. Background is the news that we can know, and not what should concern us. This was the news media celebrity imitation comes at the expense of real news, and represents a danger to a free and educated.