Gossip
Whenever I am in the check out aisle of any retail store, one thing that captures my eye is the headlines that appear in those B rated magazines that lie on the shelf. They almost always come up with eye popping headlines. I saw one yesterday where they said that Laura Bush has hired Divorce Lawyers to consider divorcing George Bush. Headlines like these are so catchy that you almost feel like buying it. But once you buy it and look inside, you’ll see that it is some kind of a fake headline designed to capture people’s attention.
People have this insatiable longing for gossips. When I used to live in India, I always see people gossiping about one thing or the other especially when they are in a group. In fact when my mom was here with me in US, she once remarked that life is very boring here without gossips. Celebrities I am sure go through hell because of such gossips.
Media like the one’s I mentioned above make use of human’s fallibility for gossip for their own monetary gains. This is the main reason why the so called B rated media have managed to stay in business so long and they will continue to do so.
What do you think?
2 comments:
Whats life without a bit masala gossip.
As far as the magazine you said, everything in business has to be sold by any means and everything is fair there. Their only objective is to sell their product. For that if they have to explot the basic weakness of humans, why not? :)
For all you know, celebs probably want gossips about them being published because it makes them more popular. Probably not all celebrities but surely most of them. I will not say all these rumors are true but I have seen most of it turn out real. Hey, it is entertaining for me. I just eyeball them when I'm at the checkout and do not buy these so I'm probably not abusing celebrities' fame ;-)
For your mom, gossips are everywhere, she just has to familiarize herself with the people with whom it is tied. Unfortunately that is the hard part.
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