More Celebrities, Less News

Towards the beginning of the semester, we talked about how news was getting "softer." We are seeing more reports about celebrities, just because it is cheaper to produce. This clip is straight from CBS News Online's YouTube page, and not only is it about celebrities, but it tells you how to make yourself look like one. I hardly find this to be news. Yes, it is informative, but it is really just an excuse to have some guy promote his book and give CBS some cheap material to "report." It is not exactly something that I believe should be pushed on the American public as important, let alone advertised as news. The thing I find even sadder about this is that under the "more from user" tab on YouTube, every video is related to celebrities or fashion, instead of any of the "real" news that is also offered by this user.

Anna Sartori