Tabloid Journalism: The Effects on Celebrities and its Reade

A tabloid is media that contains news in condensed form and much photographic material, and that features stories of violence, crime, or scandal presented in a breathtaking style. According to Graham Knight, a Canadian Scholar who teacher

Another reason Star magazine is demeaning to celebrities is because it lowers their level of self esteem. On nearly every other page in this magazine is a weight loss ad with comments like, “Picture yourself walking on the beach in a bikini” and “Don’t let being overweight get in the way of your happiness.” First of all, who says that an overweight person can’t be happy, and second even though these products have a “100% money back guarantee,” who says they are really going to work anyways? Also in Star Magazine an article titled, “Style and Error” shows eight different actresses and some recent outfits the actresses had been seen wearing, and then made a comment about each. The girls that were perfectly slender and wearing skimpy outfits had good ratings, but the others, especially the ones that didn’t wear revealing clothers were made fun of. George Gerbner, a noted cultural critic and communications scholar, makes a very interesting statement relating to this topic. Gerbner mentions, “Although video characters exist almost entirely on junk food and quaff alcohol 15 times more often than water, they manage to remain slim, healthy and beautiful.” (qtd. in Waters 8) Although Star criticizes nearly every outfit, hairstyle, and body type imaginable, other tabloids reveal that eating junk food and drinking alcohol all day is the key to having a beautiful body. Gerbner puts it this way, “TV’s complacency about unhealthy life-styles leaves both patients and doctors vulnerable to disappointment, frustration, and even litigation” (qtd. in Waters 8). What Gerbner means by this is that magazines superficially portray healthy life-styles. No one can sit around drinking beer and eating drunk food all day and still manage to pull of a slender body. Star concentrates so much on looks, yet when it comes down to it, the things that can change a way a person looks, such as eating habits and exercise, are purposely dismissed.

Tabloid journalism demeans celebrities and it’s readers by portraying that looks are everything, lowering their self-esteem, and voyeuristically snooping into their private lives. Each day, more and more people are being drawn towards tabloid TV and journalism. Women, although the group that is most degraded by such tabloids because of all the fallacies they reveal, is

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