Wow, I know I’m late to the comment board on this, but I don’t always like it when the press goes beyond their call of duty of coverage simply because someone is a celebrity.
Like with Britney why can’t the press leave her alone. I’m not really so much as just simply tired of hearing about her, as I am saddened that her whole life is in shambles and put on display.
My life has been in shambles before, and I didn’t want anyone to know. When people know they want to help.
This in itself isn’t bad, wanting to help, but this is a matter for close friends and family not a bunch of well meaning fans and paparazzi that can only see what is projected on the surface by their cameras.
They totally miss the internal struggle that we all face each day. This lack of privacy and constant barrage of analysis seems to be sending her further down.
This may seem to be similar to what the press is doing by me simply commenting on it, which is why I’m trying to refrain from making comments about Britney herself and trying to focus more on the press and how it would affect any one of us if we were in her shoes.
As far as that goes, I can only really speak if I were put on camera when my dark times came.
I can only be thankful that God found me when he did and that my dirty laundry wasn’t put out there while I was in the middle of it. I don’t mind talking about it now, but I’m thru it now. It would’ve been maddening to have everyone talking about me as if they knew me while I was going thru my pain.
Heath Ledger’s death seems to be taken the same way. Another blog/note I read from Facebook | Bryan Edward Canny’s Notes talked about how all the experts and press discuss the man’s work so passionately as if they knew him. But they are only talking about the man’s work and not who he was.
In this respect if the press covered my death in the same way, they would talk about all the computers I fixed and how I could’ve put together a great data network one day. If they did this we’d think they were weird for not talking about who I am, like what kind of son, brother, uncle, or friend that I was. Whether I walked with Jesus or not. After who I am is discussed then they could say what I did for a living, but after I’m dead does it matter as much what I did for a living or who I was?
After all what do they normally put on Tombstones?
Loving friend, brother, and uncle
or
Computer Tech … yeah, didn’t think so…
In the same sense they should talk to people who really knew the man and only then if they are ready to talk about it.
But then again, it’s all about the entertainment value isn’t it. Ratings and such. Shame. What have we become … Or am I the only one who really feels like this?
