Focus on Celebrities

What bothers me more than anything else is the attention that celebrities receive from the general public...  that is to say that the media focuses on celebrities as if their problems are somehow more severe than the general public and therefore deserve greater attention...

If a celebrity announces that they have cancer, the media goes crazy regarding how terrible that this celebrity has a grave disease...

In point of fact, thousands of Americans have cancer and go through all sorts of problems, especially because they do not have the finances to take care of themselves like the celebrities have.

And cancer is just one of many issues that the media focuses in on in an attempt to explain how celebrities should be pitied because they are having problems.

The media focuses on celebrities because they think that in so doing they will increase their ratings or sell more newspapers or magazines.  Obviously, no one cares about the general public so highlighting them will not be financially popular.

This focus on celebrities will eventually work against them as people are realizing that celebrities are not that special after all....  especially Hollywood actors and actresses...  since most of them are drug and alcohol addicts and are not good role models for our children.

In point of fact, money changes people...  and just because they may or may not have cancer, there is nothing special about their lives.