| Celebrities are everywhere and they have taken | | | | important? Do you feel that hearing about them |
| over today's mass media. They appear on the | | | | makes a difference? Whatever this phenomenon is, |
| renowned tabloids and there is even a large variety | | | | the celebrity gossip business is kept alive due to |
| of celebrity magazines. | | | | people's curiosities. |
| People know more about Paris Hilton, than they do | | | | As Oscar Wilde once said: "The public have an |
| about President Bush. Celebrities always appear in the | | | | insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what |
| news for a variety of reasons. Some of them get | | | | is worth knowing". Would you say that the public |
| drunk and make a fool of themselves, or others may | | | | spends too many hours a day learning about what |
| even be divorcing or doing things which we would | | | | celebrities do with zero results? You and thousands |
| classify as out of ordinary. However, whatever they | | | | of other people may say it's for entertaining |
| are doing, we are all turned to watch and pay careful | | | | purposes and the majority would agree. Why else |
| attention to the celebrity gossip. You may ask | | | | would this business be worth millions of dollars ($)? |
| yourself, what makes the celebrities so special that | | | | In conclusion, there are millions of websites, |
| people are entertained hearing about them? | | | | magazines and tabloids out there busy learning about |
| If celebrities have marriage problems, what makes | | | | latest celebrity gossip and lifestyle. Some philosophists |
| hearing about them more interesting that your | | | | agree that the mass media has gone out of hands |
| friends' or your neighbours' divorce? I'm sure you | | | | but there's nothing we can do at the present state. |
| would not be interested in hearing about that. Is it | | | | It is all happening due to people's preferences. The |
| because they are more famous, have more money | | | | readers are what continuously feed this madness of |
| and therefore hearing about their problems is more | | | | celebrity news and gossips so it's all owed to them. |
