Has the influence of today’s celebrities changed the
way of society?
Are the celebrities to
blame for the way that some teenagers feel that they must change the way that
they are in order to fit into society?
Beth Thorne
The
Guardian, Thursday 24 October 2013
Living
in an era full of technology, we have more access to the media than ever
before. But is all of this unlimited access to social networking sites,
television programmes, magazines and many other media forms, brainwashing us
all into what we think is what society wants us to be?
We
are attacked by magazine covers shoving celebrity news in our faces every
second of the day about their love lives and their drug and alcohol abuse, and if
I’m completely honest with you I’d rather focus on my life (which is, at times,
disastrous), rather than read about how celebrities can’t cope with the fame
and the fortune and how it’s ruined what used to be their “perfect life” – when
you perfectly know that they are loving every single second of the publicity
and attention.
Is
it just me, or are celebrities now-a-days getting more obsessed with sex,
swearing and smoking? If you ask me, it’s the music business setting them all
up to star spiralling out of control after their 21st Birthday’s
just like those of the past, *cough* Lindsay, Britney, Amanda, Paris *cough*.
C’mon, who’ll be next then, Miley Cyrus? Who knows? Maybe it will be someone
who isn’t in the public eye this time. It could be someone who looks up to one
of these celebrities or maybe all of them and thinks its “cool” to take drugs
and pose naked in photos and upload them to Twitter or Facebook. This actually
brings me to the question, what are the effects of how celebrities act on the
youth of today?
A lively piece and a good voice. How does the *cough* work? The Miley issue could be a good springboard for a piece like this but you need to tap into what effect it is actually having in order to make the piece have insight and be worth reading. Be absolutely clear on how the purposes of the two pieces differ.
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