Friday, July 22, 2011

The Truth About Celebrity Gossip

By Randy Brown


The life of a celebrity is an open book. You may be famous with all the alluring beauty and other good qualities you posses yet you are always subject to issues, intrigues and malicious accusations. You are a public interest; the apple of people's eyes. Many look at you from head to foot and mostly meddle in your private life.

There is a thin line that separates celebrity news from celebrity gossip. No matter how fine the line, there is a way to distinguish one from the other.

If we define news, it is a sort of providing information to the public about matters and events that are recently happening in the locality or in the community. We learn that from radios, televisions, papers internet or sometimes we learn that from ones mouth.

Like news, we also learn gossips from radios, television, papers but the most common source of these is through internet and the other one is directly from others mouth. Gossips mainly talks about famous people and their life. If you compare that with news, the latter is usually done in live broadcast and newspapers which talks about recent and relevant issues.

News is telling something whether it is about current events, politics, environment, health, changes and other factual issues in the community while gossips are not.

This is what differentiates news from gossip the most: gossip cannot usually be verified from the person being talked about. News, in the realm of journalism, can only be published if the source is known and the information has been verified.

Gossip clearly are not always true and reliable, they being not verified.

The paparazzi who took surreptitiously pictures of a celebrity usually are the beginning of gossips and cause it to spread to the public.

Often, a story that a picture exists and that this picture is being distributed on the net for everyone to see spreads like wildfire during hot summer days. As the picture gets viewed by more people, the discussion on the same topic grows and changes into a scandalous gossip.




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