Before I even started reading this chapter, I smiled: two of my most favorite time killing sites to visit are www.tmz.com and www.thesuperficial.com. Which are two total celebrity worship sites. There is now even a tmz television show! I think it is the "Calgon take me a way syndrome....also known as aspiring to be famous." Or otherwise just highly entertaining.
Does anyone really want to see a Paris Hilton sex tape? Really. Just needed to say that. Anyway, three stages of CWS as I refer to it are : entertainment/social stage, intense personal stage, and borderline pathologial stage..where CWS becomes an obsession.
[Note: this author likes to talk about Playboy, porn and sex tapes way too much, he might be in the pathological stage].
Is Anna Nicole Smith's death really the 5th most important topic that it should be the 5th most popular U.S. search item? I think not.
Interesting quote: "Some celebrities garner more attention if society has found a way to identify with them" [92]. Enter Chris Brown and Rihanna.
Celebrity sites that have the most male viewers: eogtastic.com and propeller.com.
Is he really talking about Perez Hilton (a.k.a. Mario Lavandiera)? Does he really attract the "Urban Uptown" PRIZM segmentation? Really? I laughed when it identified me with the target population of TMZ. Maybe Tancer IS on to something...
Is it just me, or is this book full of completely useless factoids that rarely fit the pieces of the puzzle together? I honestly do not see anything relevant in this chapter to share in our final presentation. Anyone disagree?
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I think that most of us, or at least some of us, are tired of hearing about the lives of celebrities (I just had a flashback to "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" hosted by Robin Leach). At the very least, I think that we are annoyed about hearing the same things about the same people over and over again. Just my opinion
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