Rebecca Garland asked: What really makes a celebrity a true celebrity? Is it the news coverage? The pursuit of tabloids? Perhaps sheer popularity is what drives us to call movie stars, musicians, and politicians celebrities. If that is the case, are the non-traditional stars celebrities as well? In order to find a satisfactory answer to [...]
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Celebrity Gossip – The Price of Fame
Shaun Abraham asked: Fame can be costly at times. The wide range of celebrity gossip sites provide proof of the fact that people like talking and knowing about celebrities. The vast popularity of the celeb gossip portals see a lot of traffic each day, asserting it that people love to read about them and be [...]
Celebrity Gossip and Why We Love It
Paul Steinberg asked: People love to find out about their favorite celebrities. After all, even if they don’t buy the magazines, lots of people read the headlines on the gossip magazines in line at the grocery store, and when bits of news make it to the news stations or into their email, most people absorb [...]
Celebrity Obsession?
Eugene Brenner asked: Americans, and indeed many people around the world, are hooked on celebrity news and gossip. Our media centered world feeds this obsession. By all accounts, this Hollywood star worship continues to grow. We can discern three reasons for this phenomenon: 1) Identity– Here an individual identifies with a particular celebrity. This is [...]
A True Blue Bully
Elizabeth Bennett asked: As a teen back in the late 80′s and early 90′s, I used to watch Degrassi High on the PBS network. Then we entered the 21st century and a network called The-N started airing Degrassi The Next Generation which was the same school and the next generation of kids like Spikes daughter [...]