Entertainment out of focus
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I wonder if the entertainment industry realizes it is its own greatest nemesis. The industry has plummeted from entertaining us with creativity to shocking us with stupidity. Its digging its own sparkly grave.
The paparazzi once covered our favorite entertainers, but now exploits wannabees desperate for attention and primes them for public mockery.
What's sad is some don't even know they're a joke. You would think someone in their lives would intervene. You would think someone would let them know that clubbing isn't the key to success.
It seems more often than not, that the most talked about "celebrities" don't even have jobs. Being famous for being famous is enough.
We have seriously lowered our standards of what is considered entertainment and so has the industry that covers it. This year's Oscar ratings are a sign of how Americans have tired of their tactics.
We just can't watch anymore. Instead we've resorted to another sector of society also desperate for 15 minutes of fame -- reality TV stars.
How many times do we need to watch people relinquish the dignity in the name of a cash prize?
Where are the shows with actors, writers, interesting storylines and unexpected plot twists.
The writer's strike is over -- if only the networks would use them. Oh but wait, that would mean having to pay them. Reality TV participants work for free and networks only have to pay one winner.
I look forward to the day when everyone wakes up to the true reality -- that we're bored.
Read a book. Rent movies. Stop watching bad TV. Maybe when profits go down programming will change. Maybe it will be too late and we will have found other vices.
The entertainment industry is thriving off of greed and doing what's easy. The bubble will inevitably burst.
Do the people behind the lens profit enough off of such methods to still manage when the cash cow runs dry and they have nothing respectable to put on their resume?
I hope not.
-- Char Cook, Online desk
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