The Dementia of the Rich and Famous

Quote from bathrobe:

recently I watched MTV for the first time in 10 or 12 years, this station has become extremely pathetic. No music 16 year old girls whining that they got the wrong color lexus for their birthday, I was embarrassed to even be watching this another show just showed homes and cars (which were quite nice!) of people who were rappers, I wonder what the point of either show is? Do not go to college and marry rich? When I recently went home for a visit my mother was watching a channel that had celebrity gossip in a news format type show, I kept waiting for this to be a joke but the "anchors" were serious about this gossip. I am older than MTV's demographic but this made me realize Americans are becoming brainwashed with stupidity. Why else would CNN and FOX NEWS cover Lindsay lohans coke problem
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It saddens me to see what television/internet has become. I'm sure people have been saying this for centuries, but I am very concerned for the future. The younger generation in this country (US) is so poorly educated by our crappy public school system. Add in a pop culture that is degenerating as we speak and an ever increasing dependence on the federal government and I smell trouble in the future.
 
Quote from IanMacQuaide:

I don't think it's so much that our culture is INTERESTED in Lohan, Jackson et al, I think the problem is our media decides what we're interested in, and we follow along like sheeple.
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Well ratings are very important and are the end-factor in whether the programming stays the same or changes.

A TV network can force programming on the air, but if the ratings don't justify it, the format has to be changed.

The fact is that people are eating up that crap. willingly dumbing themselves down. I'm wondering whether there is any hope left.
 
Quote from aeliodon:

Just drop the surgically enhanced posh man and go for the all natural babysitter.
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Sorry but the baby sitter has fake tits too now. And her need to keep her Z list fame has made her demented also.

From wikipedia:

In the period before Celebrity Love Island, Loos had her breasts enlarged from 34C to 34D

During The X Factor, Sharon Osbourne publicly humiliated her after one of her performances saying, "You should try doing tomorrow's performance with your knickers on, because it will help warm up your voice... You have a very bad vibe that comes from you... you have nice boobs, though, you've had a very nice boob job."

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In October 2004, she appeared on the reality television programme The Farm, a Channel 5 version of the RTE show Celebrity Farm. At one point, Loos was famously given the task of masturbating a pig to collect its semen. The broadcast of this provoked controversy and attracted complaints. The RSPCA weighed in on the controversy, criticising the show's producers for "morbid and sordid fascination with farm animals".

The incident generated tabloid headlines once again for Loos. It was also viewed by some commentators as an apt example of the depths to which Z-list celebrities would plumb for public exposure, and the lengths to which the producers of reality television would go to in order to satisfy the interests of viewers
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Quote from Hydroblunt:

The fact is that people are eating up that crap. willingly dumbing themselves down.
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That's what's the unfortunate part about this thread . . . this garbage has infiltrated our lives whether we like it or not. We can't get away from celebrity rubbish. There's an entire thread on the Chit Chat forum about Jodie Foster coming out . . . who cares? We can't walk away from the dumbing-down of society, only rise above.
 
Quote from aeliodon:

Nearly all humans aspire to be rich and famous yet if you look at people that have riches and fame they are all almost universally demented.

Exhibit 1
Brittany Spears

This chick was the hottest thing that ever happened to music. She then falls for some loser that had just dumped his pregnant girlfriend and marries him. She has a couple of kids, does all kinds of drugs in front of her kids, gets a divorce, show her nasty pussy to the whole world, gets nasty plastic surgery on her lips, bombs her comeback debut at the VMA awards, and loses her children.

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I do believe Brittany Spears is now pregnant again. I guess she figures she lost the other two, so she'll just start over. Also of course, for attention.
 
Quote from bathrobe:

recently I watched MTV for the first time in 10 or 12 years, this station has become extremely pathetic. No music 16 year old girls whining that they got the wrong color lexus for their birthday, I was embarrassed to even be watching this another show just showed homes and cars (which were quite nice!) of people who were rappers, I wonder what the point of either show is? Do not go to college and marry rich? When I recently went home for a visit my mother was watching a channel that had celebrity gossip in a news format type show, I kept waiting for this to be a joke but the "anchors" were serious about this gossip. I am older than MTV's demographic but this made me realize Americans are becoming brainwashed with stupidity. Why else would CNN and FOX NEWS cover Lindsay lohans coke problem
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Very good point.
 
Quote from bathrobe:

recently I watched MTV for the first time in 10 or 12 years, this station has become extremely pathetic. No music 16 year old girls whining that they got the wrong color lexus for their birthday, I was embarrassed to even be watching this another show just showed homes and cars (which were quite nice!) of people who were rappers, I wonder what the point of either show is? Do not go to college and marry rich? When I recently went home for a visit my mother was watching a channel that had celebrity gossip in a news format type show, I kept waiting for this to be a joke but the "anchors" were serious about this gossip. I am older than MTV's demographic but this made me realize Americans are becoming brainwashed with stupidity. Why else would CNN and FOX NEWS cover Lindsay lohans coke problem
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Holy crap I'm happy I read this thread because I was beginning to think I was the ony person in the world that felt this way.

Seriously though, Lindsay Lohan will probably get coked up and drunk one night then hit and kill some innocent person, go to rehab while avoiding a timely jail sentence. Then get out of rehab only to be rewarded with a $20mil crappy movie and start the whole cycle all over again. We've gotten to the point of rewarding stupidity which is the worst thing.
 
Why do you care if they are total fuck-ups?

Turn off Access Hollywood (and TV in general) and realize there is life beyond tracking every move of the "rich and famous".
 
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