American Journalism and the Culture of Celebrity

The news media of the early twenty-first century are saturated with images of wars, natural disasters, and celebrities. Of the three, it is the celebrities' presence that expresses a defining characteristic of our time: the continual manufacture and exploitation of fame by swarms of publicists and journalists. Together, they have turned Michael Jackson into a reference point for discussions of childrearing, Martha Stewart into an arbiter of domestic life, and prime time television into a constellation of shows that revel in the lives of the rich, the famous, and the desperate seekers of fame

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