{"id":1648,"date":"2017-02-24T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2017-02-24T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:36:58","slug":"global-issues-over-celebrity-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2017\/02\/24\/global-issues-over-celebrity-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Issues Over Celebrity Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0When you turn on the T.V, the first thing you see is celebrity news and unnecessary gossip, leaving it hard to access any kind of real news. I find that T.V news needs to give more coverage and time for global issues and international news rather than celebrity gossip. You may not realize it, but we spend a large sum of money in order to access these \u201ctop secret\u201d celebrity information. The media also gives way too much attention to Hollywood gossip compared to problems like politics and crime. Our focus is being strayed away by such things and leaves us less informative about actual news.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Have you ever thought about the money being spent by not only us, but by both parties. According to <\/span>theweek.com<\/span><\/i>, lawyers are only willing to pay more than 25,000 dollars just to make sure their clients photos aren\u2019t leaked. Meanwhile, the press freely offers to spend 2 million dollars just to get ahold of a corpse\u2019s photo that just so happened to be famous. Think about it, so much is being spent on people that just so happen to have more money and slightly more talent than us in rare cases. In my opinion, our valuable money can be spent on better things that would actually make a more positive effect on the community like charity to the needy or even for personal use.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0According to <\/span>people-press.org<\/span><\/i>, 40 percent of media coverage is being spent on celebrity news and gossip while only 5 percent went towards things like poverty, education, the economy, and politics. Since news coverage can vary from topic to topic, I believe that each should be getting at least the same amount of time and attention as the other one. Unfortunately, the exact opposite seems to be happening. We are spending too much time on a topic that isn\u2019t even going to be relevant when we\u2019re older, which leads us to\u00a0another issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zeinab Al-Ghanem<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Our focus is such a big part in our life, yet we seem to forget about it. What we focus on can make a big difference, and it seems being heavily influenced by magazines like <\/span>E! News<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Vogue<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Cosmopolitan<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>TMZ<\/span><\/i> has nearly 119.7 million global views over a course over a month. Important news stations, on the other hand, only managed to get 1.567 million in it\u2019s prime time. From what I see, our focus isn\u2019t being directed in the right path, leaving us clueless about things like war and elections, but leaving us an experts when it comes to talking about people like Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian. Zeinab Al-Ghanem, a middle school journalist, thinks that \u201cToo much attention is being directed towards celeb magazines instead of the real world, not allowing the people to see what is actually happening to our today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Overall, I think it\u2019s safe to say that media outlets focus more on gossip and Hollywood news rather than important current events, leading us to change our focus to the same thing. Once our focus changes, so do our goals, showing us as a person and who we are. Whether or not you mind celebrity gossip, international news should have at least similar percentages when it comes to coverage. These are my thoughts when it comes to news and how it should be presented.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zainab Al-Najim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0When you turn on the T.V, the first thing you see is celebrity news and unnecessary gossip, leaving it hard to access any kind of real news. I find that T.V news needs to give more coverage and time for global issues and international news rather than celebrity gossip. You may not realize it, …<\/p>\n

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