The media pay too much
attention to the lives and relationships of celebrities such as actors, singers
or footballers. They should spend more time reporting the lives of ordinary
people instead.
Overtime, media has oriented
toward famous figures. An urge then arises to also inform about ordinary
people. Despite of different values given by both kinds of information, I
believe that celebrities’ lives and relationships are worthier to expose.
Nowadays, there are more
online or offline media presenting common people stories as those are
motivational and inspirational to enjoy. These reports focus on displaying how
ordinary people, particularly the poor, address their life problems and
survive, or presenting successful autobiography of them. Values offered through
these programs are mainly to motivate viewers and readers to be always
grateful, to work harder, as well as to build sympathy and empathy to others
despite of their circumstances as there might be more unfortunate persons than
them in their life. However, I think these kinds of stories and news will not
attract many consumers since they may think that it does not deserve
admiration.
Celebrities’ role as public
figures holds more power on inspiring, influencing, and motivating their
followers. Common people idolize the extraordinary ones and therefore their
glamourous and successful life or career can be a driving force for their fans
to work harder and never stop dreaming on pursuing dreams as their favourite
renowned persons once lived ordinary. Moreover, celebrities’ relationships even
private lives are usually depicted as full drama or sensations that seems
extremely entertaining for others. Although the fabricated news of popular
persons is ubiquitous and is possibly considered bad to follow, but this is the
most entertaining program at people’s home to wait for. On many TV channels,
gossip programs lead the rating, showing the high demand for such news.
All in all, it is true that
ordinary people stories can inspire others positively. However, news about
public figures are the most entertaining and demanded.
