Gordon says…

Gordon Brown claims today that the country is turning away from a celebrity culture and insists his seriousness is in tune with a new spirit of the times. (The Guardian)

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of optimism, but Gordon seems to be living in a fantasy world. Screaming from every tabloid headline and TV news programme today was the shocking news that… I can barely find the words to describe such horror… deep breath now…

A young member of the Royal Family has split up with the girl he was going out with.

Not surprisingly, media commentators and vox-popping members of the public have blamed the aggressive and intrusive press for making newly slebbified Kate Middleton’s life a misery and causing the eventual split. That’s rather disingenuous… we (and I’m using the broadest sense of “we”) get the media we deserve. The tabloids hound the Royals because we pay them to do so.

Granted, it’s not entirely one-way traffic… the media have played their part in whipping up the celeb frenzy. However, they’re simply exploiting their market. The fascination with celebrities began long before the Princess Diana hysteria, long before even the first movie stars of the 1920s. What’s different now, though, is the slack-jawed obsession with the trivial lives of people whose only achievement is to be given enough airtime to proclaim themselves “celebrities”. That doesn’t look like changing for a while, whatever Gordon Brown may think.

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One Response to Gordon says…

  1. premiump says:

    Here here!

    I’d vote for you.

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