Paris Hilton: Friend or Media Whore?

January 12, 2007 at 2:44 am (Media Whores)

I guess I should clarify my thoughts on Paris Hilton since she’s going to make an appearance in my blog more than once since I have such a contempt for her presence in society. As one commenter (commentee?) pointed out, I don’t actually think Paris Hilton is the cause of our media’s current state of turmoil. As far as I’m concerned, the popularity of Paris Hilton is the product of the media’s descent. What saddens me is that she is embedded in every aspect of media these days and I’m just sick of seeing her face everywhere! She has tv shows, movies, cds, books, and is on the cover of magazines. Although her book is mostly pictures… but still. She’s been published. I just wanted to point out the fact that Paris Hilton is one of the most acknowledged celebrities these days, whereas 15 or 20 years ago, pointless “celebrities” like her did not even exist. She hasn’t done much (or anything) productive for society other than give porn shops another video to sell, HMV another record to discount, and nighclubs free advertising.

Anyways. That’s my Paris Hilton rant.

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and so it begins…

January 11, 2007 at 10:31 pm (Class Related, Media Whores)

Well I guess I’ll start off by saying that blogging freaks me out a bit. Or a lot I guess. The whole idea of writing to no one, yet everyone at the same time, is weird to me. But seeing as how this is worth almost half of my mark I will embrace it and love every second of it. ha!

I really enjoyed class last night. I think my roommate got sick of me talking about it all night. I’m just really interested in the effects of media on today’s society. There are so many different outlets now that it’s near impossible to not be affected by media some way. For me I guess I’m affected in a multidue of ways. I don’t watch too much TV, but I have phases where all I’ll watch is MTV for a week. Something interesting happens when all you watch is episode after episode of Yo Momma, Date My Mom, Laguna Beach, etc. You lose track of the real world completely. At one point during my MTV-a-thon, I had become so cut off from the world that I didn’t realize major world events were taking place. Needless to say, it was depressing and so I’ve been off MTV for awhile now. (As a side note, does it piss anyone else off how they NEVER have music on it?? The only music that channel seems to feature is the theme song to their shows…)

I got off topic there. MTV gets me worked up I guess. Anyways, I’m really excited about this class and I think I’m going to get a lot out of it. Paul seems to really like what he’s teaching about and that always makes sitting through class easier on me. Particularly when it’s a night class! I was also saddened by the choice that Grease is the best movie ever. I guess I’m the only girl in the world who hates Grease. I’m just not a musical kind of person. The way they go from talking in normal conversation to breaking out in song and dance in the span of 3 seconds really makes me angry. I’ll be straight up with you – i think musicals are lame. However my favourite movie is Clueless… so I can’t really judge. haha.

And here’s a little view of why I think the media is in a state of emergency right now. Everywhere I look I see this woman and it’s becoming nauseating:

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http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/Celebs/Galleries/Articles/Paris_Hilton_gallery.htm?feedname=PHOTO_GALLERY_PARIS&pos=17&nolookup=true

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