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Living in a society where personal projection, ego-management and soft-skills account for much of one's success, I wonder to what extent will celebrity status motivate future online activists?
Living in a society where personal projection, ego-management and soft-skills account for much of one's success, I wonder to what extent will celebrity status motivate future online activists?
Liz Smith | Posted 05.28.2012
Gossip and celebrity are the great luxuries of true democracy. They're the tawdry jewel in the crown of free speech and expression. Gossip about the famous or infamous is for leisure, for fun, for entertainment, for relaxation.
Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 05.13.2012
Hamm's remarks don't seem very careless -- they actually seem pretty thoughtful -- and he didn't say Kardashian isn't successful.
Kristen Hotham Carroll | Posted 04.28.2012
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe are all names I remember hearing as I was growing up. I would be hard pressed to find a 12-year-old who could name a living artist today.
Paul Stoller | Posted 11.07.2011
The lack of volition to travel overseas corresponds to a shocking ignorance about other parts of the world. Contemporary students are notoriously ignorant of world geography. Many of them think that Africa, for example, is one country rather than a continent of 53 sovereign nations.
Paul Stoller | Posted 10.18.2011
In this media environment, many pundits are compelled to reflect upon the nonsensical, which, in the end, gives the nonsensical a degree of public credibility.
Kelley Harrell | Posted 06.05.2011
We don't have earthly gods and goddesses to look up to anymore, but we do have the next best thing -- celebrities -- seekers of fame and fortune, whose lives are thrown into the awareness of almost every living creature in the modern world.
Lewis Lapham | Posted 05.25.2011
The less that it is understood what politicians do, the more compelling the need to clothe them in an aura like Andy Warhol, one that you can only see on people you don't know very well or at all.
Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011
In a media culture where cats batting balls of yarn get a larger audience than The Hurt Locker, artists don't bother to study in their fields, preferring to arm themselves with a cool, teeny camera and have at it.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011
Not all narcissism is pathological -- "healthy" narcissism can help you to accept and love yourself, and work to make yourself the best possible you.
Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011
Us Weekly has profited enormously from the Gosselins' marriage failing -- producing six consecutive covers this summer featuring either Jon or Kate -- and they're not quite done feasting off that carcass' bones.
Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011
How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.17.2011
Our culture puts celebrities on a pedestal and adores them, we seem to get more satisfaction when they fall -- and the harder the better.
Etan Bednarsh | Posted 05.25.2011
Yes, it is sad that Jackson died as broken shards of a person, but it's sadder that he was once one beautiful whole who cracked under the pressure of our glare.
Tijana Milosevic | Posted 05.06.2012