This is a short video (if we can call it that) of a stroll from the lovely Avenham Park in Prestiago to the University's Foster Building. Have a gander :)
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Monday, 18 February 2008
The World of Celebrity
So this is my first blog, i'm a journalism student and have been told that it's a good idea for budding journalists to keep a blog! Here goes...
Lately I have noticed that we are constantly bombarded with the world of celebrity. Whether it's Britney Spears shaving all of her hair off, Paris Hillton getting sent to jail or a Girls Aloud member having a scrap outside a London night club. We cannot escape the gossip that is flooding more often into our mainstream news.
This annoys me greatly. Surely we have more things in this world to worry about and use valuable brain space over than how orange Kimberly Walsh is. Do you really care? I know that I don't.
This bombardment of celebrity gossip/news is an everyday occurance for many of us, it hits us in the form of magazines, chat shows, internet adverts, newspapers and even news programmes. We cannot escape it.
The world of celebrity is high on many peoples agenda's, they would rather obsess over other peoples lives than get on with thier own. When there are so many things wrong with this world, when there is so much poverty and depression I feel that people need to re-asses their morals.
Seeing the youtube video of Chris Crocker wailing over Britney Spears really made me think, what is the media turning our generation into? His anguish over the life and times of Britney Spears is quite frankly very wrong. If it was someone he actually knew I could maybe understand.
Fellow blogger Melissa Ruggieri talks of this celebrity culture, saying that it's 'allure is magnetic'. I don't no whether I agree with this but one point she did bring up in her blog that I totally agree with is that the world of celebrity is exceedingly more difficult to avoid.
We don't necessarily want to see the video phone footage of Heath Ledger's body being wheeled out of a New York high rise, yet it's brandished all over our evening news.
I think people need to detatch themselves from this celebrity world, take a step back and look at the more important things in life.
Lately I have noticed that we are constantly bombarded with the world of celebrity. Whether it's Britney Spears shaving all of her hair off, Paris Hillton getting sent to jail or a Girls Aloud member having a scrap outside a London night club. We cannot escape the gossip that is flooding more often into our mainstream news.
This annoys me greatly. Surely we have more things in this world to worry about and use valuable brain space over than how orange Kimberly Walsh is. Do you really care? I know that I don't.
This bombardment of celebrity gossip/news is an everyday occurance for many of us, it hits us in the form of magazines, chat shows, internet adverts, newspapers and even news programmes. We cannot escape it.
The world of celebrity is high on many peoples agenda's, they would rather obsess over other peoples lives than get on with thier own. When there are so many things wrong with this world, when there is so much poverty and depression I feel that people need to re-asses their morals.
Seeing the youtube video of Chris Crocker wailing over Britney Spears really made me think, what is the media turning our generation into? His anguish over the life and times of Britney Spears is quite frankly very wrong. If it was someone he actually knew I could maybe understand.
Fellow blogger Melissa Ruggieri talks of this celebrity culture, saying that it's 'allure is magnetic'. I don't no whether I agree with this but one point she did bring up in her blog that I totally agree with is that the world of celebrity is exceedingly more difficult to avoid.
We don't necessarily want to see the video phone footage of Heath Ledger's body being wheeled out of a New York high rise, yet it's brandished all over our evening news.
I think people need to detatch themselves from this celebrity world, take a step back and look at the more important things in life.
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