Erenne Coleman
Popular Culture
Weekly Written Analysis 5
Assignment 5-1
Big News: Katie Holmes Has a Shiny New Hair Cut
Well, in preparing for this week’s assignment, I came across this article about actress Katie Holmes. The world has watched as Katie has matured and blossomed in to womanhood, marriage and motherhood. Why not tell us that she got a new hair cut? It is evident in popular culture that all aspects of celebrity’s lives are something for entertainment. This article appears on about.com and it categorized under celebrity information. The author, Diana Mimom, feels that readers should know about it. Why not?
Writers want to blame paparazzi for the celebrity infacuation, but they report then print events anyway. In this article the writer is assuming like the rest of us reasons that Katie may have gotten her hair done. It could just be she wanted a different look. No matter if she got her hair cut short, dyed, or anything else that could be done to hair, does that change her as a person? Probably not, but again this is another way that media is informing us of celebrity happenings.
As if informing readers of Katie’s haircut is not enough, we get a statement of the writers opinion not to get comfortable with the look, she ‘ll probably change it again. Well, let’s prepare to read about it when it happens.
References
Mimom, K. (2007, December). Big News: Katie Holmes Has a Shiny New Hair Cut. About.com
Retrieved March 24, 2008 from
http://gossip.about.com/od/celebrityfashion/qt/Holmes_Haircut.htm
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WOW! Thank goodness that this important news had to be reported. I can tell from your tone, that you agree that this isn't really news worthy information, yet so many are infatuated with knowing all of this information.
How do we get away from this, and what do we, as a culture do to change the perception that we are more than the celebrities that are seen around the world. America has much more to offer than anything that we are seen due to these yahoos.
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