A couple of years ago, I was introduced to the website, "perezhilton.com". Perezhilton.com is a celebrity gossip blog written by, the one and only, Perez Hilton. If you want to know what the latest gossip is about your favourite celeb, this website is the place to go.
For a while, I was obsessed with this website. I checked it everyday so that I could be caught up on the latest scandals in Hollywood. Even now, I check it every once in a while.
Millions of people go onto Perez Hilton daily. The website has become the number one gossip website in North America, and the most hated website in Hollywood. Although this is such a popular website, I have come to realize how rediculous it is. Perez Hilton makes tons of money off of this website, and all he does is write about other people. Depending on if he likes the celeb he is writing about or not, his blogs can be very insulting, or gratifying- which makes him a bit bias.
Celebrities hate him, and teens love him. Modern culture focuses on hero worship and false idols, and sites like perezhilton.com propegate this trend. Teens rely on him to update them on their favourite celebrity. However if you really think about it, it is all just gossip, and Perez is making a living off of this.
It is also unfair to celebrities for Perez to be making money off of writing about their flaws and personal lives when it is really no ones business. People get glued to this website to find out what's going on in the lives of famous people, making what Perez does seen as culturally acceptable. Things like satire have always been acceptable (such as the Daily Show or Colbert Report)...but Perez just insults celebrities without any sort of cultural value. How do you feel about this website? Would you like it if someone were to post blogs and gossip about you whehter it was true or not?
Blog posted by, Krystal Knopf
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I used to be the same way. I would read it every day and then I just felt like a sad sad fan obsessing over the bad things I could find about celebs.I dont even read it anymore. Its so dumb, this guy makes millions off of the faults of others and even faults that he makes up. Its acutally pretty sad in my opinion, but we live in a world where we go to any extent to make money. Perez Hilton is patheic in my opinion. It is a culture of sin. Gossip is hurtful, decieptful and just negative. Why arent we treating others how we would want to be treated. This value has been pushedout the door in this generation in my opinion
ReplyDelete--Mary Laird
This isn't just relevant to his website. You could look at TMZ, and then even look at those magz like, In Touch and Us Weekly. They all intrude onto peoples lives simply because they are famous. Most people don't ASK for this attention however some of them do. PEople like Paris Hilton, want the attention whether is it negative or positive. IT all dependson theclass of the people.
ReplyDeleteGossip in our world is horrible. PEople hate it and most of the time it is hurtful like Mary said.
So why do we accept the Famous gossip?