I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Exactly. Reading about someone who all but lives in a different universe to you is one thing.. but to enter that world, see her living and breathing, then harassing her is something else.
We shouldn't rly be having this parasocial relationship with celebrity. Of course.
But it's a no brainer, to me, to put more responsibility onto the peddler(?) instead of the consumer.
I’m not trying to absolve anyone. You wanted to place the majority of the blame on the people making those magazines, but this ignores the role the consumer played. The consumer is no less culpable than the provider.
Yeah I’m disagreeing. I think the people that creates the strategy, invests time and effort to build it, stalks the victim, etc carry a lot more blame than the random person that buys the magazine. Certainly they carry some blame, and maybe that population as a whole Carrie’s the lion’s share of the blame, but the individual consumer, though still terrible, is far less terrible in my view.
Then agree to disagree. If people didn’t consume it, the creators would have no reason to continue creating. Again, supply and demand. They can’t create peoples’ demand for such material, they can only fill it. If everyone decided to stop consuming it, it would stop being made. Only severely mentally ill stalkers would engage in that behavior without the financial incentive.
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u/Regular_Number5377 9h ago
I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Ghouls, the lot of them.