Erenne Coleman
Popular Culture
Weekly Written Analysis 4
Assignment 4-1
Murphy Not Involved in Child’s Life
This week I came across the above titled article about comedian/actor Eddie Murphy and singer Melanie Brown (member of the Spice Girls). This article focused on Murphy’s refusal to meet his baby daughter. The writer of this article keeps it short and simple with no real history of the problems between Murphy and Brown. This article reflects the statements from Brown’s attorney, Gloria Allred, who criticizes Murphy’s actions, stating he should not punish his daughter by not wanting to see her or be apart of her life. Even though Allred’s comments may be valid and carry some weight with person’s who have gone through a similar ordeal with having a child and having that child’s father not want to be apart of their life, but in this case, it is an obvious media frenzy and spectacle. Publishing an article such as this only proves that media wants to put their own spin on situations and portray people in the worst possible way. How are we really to know how Murphy feels, or what is really causing him to feel this way? The article only has comments form Murphy in one sentence. Murphy feels that Brown somehow tricked him into getting her pregnant. Well, that is a pretty heavy statement, but that is all we get from the writer on Murphy’s thoughts and feelings. The article seems to be just another note to the public, that Murphy still hasn’t seen his child and speculates that he is not trying to be apart of her life. If this is true, then it is an unfortunate situation for the child involved, but at this point, the article is just another “drop in the bucket” of information that media feels the public needs to know.
Citations
Murphy Not Involved in Child’s Life. (2008). Sify Movies. Retrieved March 14, 2008, from http://sify.com/movies/fullstory.php?id=14622573.
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While these two are celebrities, it just goes to show how media-centric our culture has gotten. We feed off only the information that they choose to print, and we never know the complete facts.
The sorriest aspect of this entire situation, is once again, two arguing adults have placed a child in the middle of their spat, and could, as far as we know, care less about how this affects the child, both near and long term.
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