Celebrity Culture

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This paper contends that celebrity culture has become so mass-produced in the American media that it has overpowered news-based coverage. The paper explains that this market saturation is capable because of how we communicate and it is changing what we communicate about on all levels. The paper examines the possible causes of celebrity fascination and explores its effect on the news media.

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"Celebrity faces are an ever-present reality today. American television programs, supermarket check-out lines, newsstands, cubicle desks, and middle school book bags are full of them: the bright, shiny faces that show the American people how to dress, eat, not eat, dine, dance, walk; the latest gossip about who is kissing who, who has broken up, and who is the Next Hot Thing. Holly wood has become America's living, breathing soap-opera, and instead of being tucked away in the afternoon hours between the midday and evening news, they have become the news. Journalists bow to them, filling their court rooms with microphones, cameras, and live updates whenever they do something wrong, and camp outside whatever happy event is celebrated when they do something right."

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