Project

Celebrities: The New Generation’s False Idols (Working title)

  I'm interested in doing a topic on how the privacy and statements of athletes/celebrities attribute to how on social media, they are often held to a higher standard. We as a public/media find the need to nitpick, judge and give our own opinions to rationalize or denounce their endeavors. Why do people care so much and waste time with issues, that don’t affect their lives (at least not directly)? Is this a way of making people feel as though their voice is being heard or matters, when addressing it on social forums? We see the public resort to selective anger towards certain people (because of who they are) which can heighten or downplay incidents involving them. At times, it seems as though the public A la carte what and who as they please without taking into consideration, a rational objective point of view.