Dumbed Down By Celebrity Infatuation
The influence on the mass media has tainted our views on what the real issues are. Topics that should be circulating the news circuit are put in the back burner behind the latest celebrity scandal, wardrobe malfunction, and YouTube hit. Real issues such as the war and its progress are not headlines but only on shorter time slots. It seems like the importance of important issues has even been ignored by respectable news organizations and publications. The draw to scandal has even become main news whether its focus is on celebrities or respectable public figures. Nobody is safe from gossip and the popularity it has gained is so intense that it seems that there is no end in sight.
There once was a time, before the internet and before popular gossip channels that people watched the news for the obvious reasons; to find out what was going on in the world. Important issues on the world were reported to us and debated on. Bill O'Reilly once argued and would hassle people about......
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