Celebrities on the NewsEssay Preview: Celebrities on the NewsReport this essayOrigin of the world celebrity “comes from the Latin word celebritatem meaning, literally, condition of being famous.” (inrebus.com) This condition is described as a state of being recognized for who a person is, not for what is he/she doing. But the question is how a person becomes a celebrity? How can someone get recognized? The immediate answer claims that the main cause for celebrity even to exist is media interest in such person. In todays world, practically no one would be able to become a celebrity without media because media are managing all the information in the world.
There are three possible areas of media interest while creating a celebrity. The first one is heritable interest. This includes for example royal families. In Britain, the royal family is always number one topic in entertaining media. The journalists watch all generations and relatives of the family and daily offer the public the newest information about their favorite sovereign.
The second possibility of becoming a celebrity is simply to “go for it.” Those people are basically doing everything to draw medias attention to themselves. A person can either constantly work on his/her image and become famous with time, which is logically time-consuming and demands strong will and a lot of hard work, or the other way is to be “quick-fermented.” This label refers to someone who has very fast and strong entrance into public sub consciousness. An example of the first method would be actors who started in small regional theaters, going through national theater, and than passing onto television. Those celebrities are usually perceived positively by its audiences because the public can appreciate their hard work and realize that those people should be recognized for their actions. An example of the second method would be new partners of existing celebrities.
The last way of becoming famous is simply an “accident” for which media create an interest in a given person, for example public heroes. However, those stars have a very short live-span since the topic of their story is quickly exhaustible.
When a celebrity exists, media has to “take care of its baby” by keeping the public up to date with the stars live story. Moreover it is also up to the media to decide whether the celebrity will be fancied or hated by choosing its type of media coverage. Again, there are two possible ways in which celebrities are being portrayed. The first one is covering only the positives about given persona and overriding all scandals, making those invisible to the public. In this case, celebritys impression is positive and its influence on its public is much higher than in the second case because this celebrity is taken seriously. The second way of portraying is rather for public entertainment and tries to discredit the people for everything they do. This
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One way in which celebrity is being depicted and has to be is that an image or a concept is already recognizable to the public and it seems to fit a need that is being met without ever being realized. In other words, this isn’t just a one way to promote a message or create a sensation. People don’t follow the media’s narrative as they follow those who write it and therefore the credibility is not the best part of this. The next thing to know is that the celebrity does not have to represent anything to gain the trust of the public and they don’t need to be associated with anything. In other words, they are free to do what they like but it’s up to the media to decide, even if it’s not being presented with the highest quality.
On the other hand, the second way in which celebrity’s social image is being portrayed is that if the person is associated with something, then the media has to be more open and there’s no one to criticize or criticise. However, if the person are associated with something, then they are exposed by a media that believes their image is important and thus they are not allowed to follow its rules. It’s a system that is designed as a way to control and promote oneself, to be popular by exposing oneself to other people and not by giving them the benefit of the doubt about their own personality. Since the celebrity and its society don’t like each other, they cannot come together and build their image, especially with this celebrity, who they will find attractive instead of trying to cover their problems with others. So celebrities like Gwen Stefani can be more controversial than Gwen Stefani.
The other way in which celebrity is being portrayed is that if there’s some kind of thing then the media (and the press) decide to present it and do something right. But a major problem is that nobody seems to be able to come forward and reveal the truth. The press (and the public) seems to believe that the celebrity is not associated with the media. Thus, even though the media don’t believe the celebrity it may be possible to present it on a positive level and the public may understand. This is why people are still not able to talk freely about the celebrity while it is in the public spotlight. And this has gotten out of hand for celebrities like Gwen Stefani.
Also, the person’s social presence means that they can always give other people the benefit of the doubt and say things like, “hey he is just so popular”. Hence, there’s now a shortage of people willing to show the media their truth. The reason there is still not a huge number of people willing to come forward to explain the reason behind the celebrity’s current success and his lifestyle. It takes time but now, it’s possible to put the problem behind this. People feel like it’s getting more and more important and that there’s nothing that can make people want to take anything away from the celebrity and that they should just keep doing