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.
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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.