By LINDSAY THOMPSON<\/p>\n
All over Internet news sources and on TV broadcasts today, you\u2019ll probably hear something about \u201cCelebrity Phone Hackings! Nude Photos Leaked!\u201d If you stay up to date with current events, there is really no way you did not hear about this. It\u2019s posted everywhere.<\/p>\n
Why should we care that Jennifer Lawrence\u2019s phone was hacked, or that Kate Middleton is pregnant, or that Kris and Bruce Jenner are getting a divorce?<\/p>\n
There are people who have built their whole career around reporting celebrity gossip (hello, Perez Hilton.) Yet bloggers, gossip columns, and E! News<\/i> aren\u2019t the only ones talking about celebrities. The story of Kate Middleton\u2019s second pregnancy was featured on ABC\u2019s World News.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a journalist’s job to help inform people about what\u2019s going on in the world and what the public should generally know. Still, journalists also report what they know people want<\/i> to hear. Most TV news broadcasts will have some type of human interest piece thrown in, and giving people the low down on what\u2019s happening in Hollywood is an easy way to fill that.<\/p>\n
If it\u2019s possible to have a whole station like E! News <\/i>devoted just to stirring up the celebrity rumor mill, clearly enough people want to know what\u2019s happening in celebrities\u2019 lives. But why?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s nice to know that celebrities are people, too. They get divorced, they have their phones hacked, they\u2019re caught with drugs and have to go to court. They\u2019re not untouchable.<\/p>\n
Not only that, but everyone knows who these celebrities are, and it\u2019s easy to talk about someone you know. The general public probably isn\u2019t going to care if your cousin is being shipped off to rehab (unless there was some weird twist to thicken the plot of the story,) because they don\u2019t know your cousin. It\u2019s sometimes easy to feel like you actually know<\/i> someone just because you have seen all of their movies, or watched a few of their interviews on daytime television.<\/p>\n
As long as people are still tuning in to hear about celebrity news, reporters are still going to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By LINDSAY THOMPSON All over Internet news sources and on TV broadcasts today, you\u2019ll probably hear something about \u201cCelebrity Phone Hackings! Nude Photos Leaked!\u201d If you stay up to date with current events, there is really no way you did … Continue reading