Celebrity Stereotypes

Popular magazines, Buzzfeed articles, or even snapchat stories cover things such as current celebrities’ plastic surgery endeavors and the latest fashion trends, to which more people pay attention than those that read more pressing news. Hence, citizens end up in the absence of salient news and believing celebrity gossip is the important news. I believe that today’s society puts too prominent a spotlight on the lives of celebrities and not nearly enough gravity on being well informed.

America seems to be the very pinnacle of such ignorance as this. While we should perhaps pay more attention to what is going on in our own country, and conjointly other countries, we as Americans turn our focus instead to people such as the Kardashians. We know nothing of people’s views or whether or not they’re a kind person, but we care greatly about how they portrayed a role in a popular movie. These facts cannot be a healthy way of living, rather a means of procrastinating learning about the horrors of today’s world.

Modern society forces upon us ideals such as “thigh gaps” and perfectly tanned skin, whilst ignoring the news of terror attacks, which have significantly
Online publications should hold the responsibility of providing scholarly news articles as well as the celebrity drama they normally write about. Due to the fact that some people may deem certain articles more interesting than others, they are more inclined to go to the website that provides them that article, but if both kinds of articles were conveniently in the same propinquity, the average plebeian would be capable of accessing either article at any time and with equal ease. It would also allow for people to take a break from the more solemn news and read a more lighthearted article on the same webpage or