06.25.09
TV? What’s that?
Am I the only one that doesn’t keep up with what’s going on in TV land? I read a lot of blogs and that seems to be the way I find out information now, but it never seems to be world information, it’s almost always about what is happening in celebrity lives.
I am not a reality tv fan whatsoever. The closest thing I ever got to was Extreme home makeover, but was often too annoyed by Mr. Penner’s constant shouting (“move that bus!”) that I don’t watch it. Of course there is the fact that we have exactly 1 channel that we don’t get a very good signal from and won’t get once it all goes to digital (which I’m tickled pink by as CBC sucks and should’ve been left to die a long time ago).
So I guess a very famous family with a whack of kids that were born at the same time are splitting up. Ok. I often wonder why stuff like this is actual news. Why is it that the world loves to watch someone else’s life on tv and then is peeled to the news that their lives are going to shit. Really, what’s the point? We know famous people are people too, their shit stinks just like our own and they don’t wake up all pretty all the time just like us (ok, maybe Sandra Bullock does), why do we love it when they fail? Or the fact that we think it’s okay to stalk them through the papparazzi because they get paid a lot of money. Why is that okay? We are stalkers, just indirectly, through all those photographs and websites that promote the posting/selling of those photographs (hello Perez). I’m not much better, I used to read MSN’s celebrity pages when the gown pictures were put up because I loved to see them. But why is it okay for the world to go further than that and know the very details of their lives?
I stopped reading MSN a long time ago, and I still cringe when I see famous faces plastered across the smut pages of trash magazines at the grocery store counter. I hate that it means my kids are reading that trash, not understanding that it’s so wrong to even have that there. Because we watch movies, my kids recognize the faces on there and are concerned when they see these people’s lives supposedly turned upside down, not even realizing that it’s extremely likely that’s entirely false. Of course it becomes a conversation starter about print media and how bogus it really is.
I know it’s not as common in Canada. Most often when celebrities come here there isn’t even a ripple started by their presence. I remember seeing it in the paper once, but not since and I know some live in the area. But we just don’t buy into the bullshit idea that it is our business what goes on in their lives.
Celebrities who don’t want the brou-haha of publicity, may I suggest moving the hell out of Hollywood?
morethananelectrician said,
June 25, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Yeah…I really don’t have too much sympathy for the famous and thier complaints about a lack of privacy.
shmode said,
June 26, 2009 at 7:28 am
Why? Is it because they are rich enough to deal with it? Of course there are exceptions (*cough Britney*) who look for it and deserve the attention, but I remember hearing about Julia Roberts’ kids being pestered at school by the paparazzi, and that is just sick. Where do we draw the line?