IELTS Essay # 28 - Nowadays media is paying a lot of attention to life stories of famous people in fields such as cinema, sports and modelling. What are the reasons for this? Do you think it is a positive or negative trend?

Essay # 28

Nowadays media is paying a lot of attention to life stories of famous people in fields such as cinema, sports and modelling. What are the reasons for this? Do you think it is a positive or negative trend?

Media channels are flooded with the reports of celebrity lifestyles and gossips nowadays. Since a large number of people follow celebrities passionately, such news articles gather a lot of viewership. This essay shall discuss pros and cons of this issue and present a reasonable conclusion.

A lot of news channels, magazines and tabloids are consistently publishing stories regarding the habits and ways of famous celebrities. From what the celebrity eats to where he goes for holidaying is all reported for the people to see. They are so reliant on the curiosity of the fans following these celebs that even click-bait articles have become very common. I personally feel that this obsession has increased more due to frequent publishing of such articles that has created an over-hyped fixation in the society on such issues.

It is quite reasonable to be interested in knowing about your favourite celebrity. There are examples of many people following the success mantra of celebrities for their self-improvement. All this is acceptable till the time this sort of information is used for unnecessary gossip and waste of time, which is what is happening nowadays. The media delves into the personal lives of celebrities to gather news that can increase their own viewership, which is unethical towards both, the celebrities’ right to privacy, and responsible journalism.

Many important happenings in the society and the country go unnoticed only because media has created a need for such shallow news in the name of entertainment. People ignore important articles to read more about their favourite celebrities’ scandalous life stories, so they can gossip about it to others, and this ‘conversational-epidemic’ contributes greatly in lowering the general IQ of the people. Therefore I feel this is not a good development.

To conclude, I opine that such tattling publications and over emphasis on celebrity life stories is negative trend. Media should become more responsible and publish articles with a sensible balance so that all the sections of the society are catered to with all necessary information.

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