Checkbook Journalism
Some Qantas flight attendant was sacked for allegedly having sex with Ralph Feinnes (which she denies) in a plane toilet during a flight and now she is going to sell her story for $400,000.
WHAT STORY IS THERE TO TELL?
The sad thing is that people are going to tune into the news to listen to this! And what for? To hear her deny it? What sort of story is that, it’s a waste of half an hour of your life. Even if she did, who cares, good on her! He’s ONLY a celebrity, that doesn’t make him any better a person than anyone else.
Somehow an industry has grown up around celebrities and celebrity gossip. I suspect that people who have nothing better to do with their lives want to live their lives vicariously through famous people and also want to see those famous people they don’t like, fail. Which is amusing to say the least because their judgements on who they like and don’t like is based on what they read in the papers and see on tv. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that these people are no different to you and me, except they have alot more money probably.
That was the best story ever, what are you talking about.
Comment by Richo — February 17, 2007 @ 7:44 pm