Sports Heroes: Then and Now

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This paper explores how major league athletes enjoy a life filled with adoring fans, and also looks at the many benefits of being a celebrity figure. The writer of this paper discusses how from the 1960s to the present, the media has changed its style of reporting about athletes and celebrities. This paper also probes the term "bad press" and describes how the media deliberately sets out to disperse negative information about an athlete which can and has ruined careers.

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"This attitude has changed drastically over last two decades and now the media will run a news story of a sport's heroes evils with as much gusto as they run the good stories of the sport's heroes. Americans today are different in the way they view the once legendary heroes of sports. They are not held with as much awe as they once were by their fans, though the fans are enthusiastic about their teams. Sports in general has lost a lot of the magic it once had in the 60's and times before that, but this is a signs of changing times."

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