I often wonder why so many individuals obsess over celebrities and why well-known individuals generate such high worth in as we speak’s news cycles.

I understand why entertainment magazines value celebrities and their gossip as news worthy. It is entertainment and that’s what the magazine is all about — the entertainment industry.

But it seems absurd, (at the very least to me) that CNN, Fox News, and so many other worldwide news organizations take the time to inform viewers about the lives of celebrities or, at the least, contribute to the gossip about them.

So how did leisure news and gossip become world-wide valued hard-news stories? And why are folks more interested in the lives of celebrities than what’s actually occurring on the planet?

Celebrities characterize people who find themselves a lot prettier, better dressed and far wealthier than the typical person. From a younger age, we are predisposed to celebrities by watching TV shows and listening to music. We develop an appreciation for these artists and we become obsessed with our favorite people. Because we love our favorite actors or musicians we turn into eager to learn more about them and what goes on in their lives and less about our own. We focus more on when the next Britney Spears album comes out and less on doing dwellingwork and which faculty we’d finally like to attend.

After we develop an interest for the characters we watch, and the actors that play them, we develop into obsessed and wish to know everything there may be to know about them. Leisure news and gossip provide perception into the lives of everybody’s favorite celebrities. Many people consider celebrities to be their associates and, thus, want to know more about them. They show that celebrities, too, are normal individuals just like us who also experience heartache, destruction, and disaster.

The rise of the Internet, the invention of television and radio, as well as a slight lower in training have all contributed to the function celebrities play in our mainstream news.

Regular news is commonly boring, negative, miserable and often hard to follow. Most individuals don’t take the time to follow or keep up with the news because it makes them really feel bad. Celebrity news is entertaining, comical, relaxing and makes folks really feel good knowing that celebrities undergo tough instances just like we do. Celebrity news provides people a chance to break away from their own lives and into the lives of someone else.

But while entertainment news is attention-grabbing and provides a aid from our own everyday lives, when put into perspective, all celebrity gossip and entertainment news has achieved is dumb our society down by making Miley Cyrus more necessary and newsworthy than Congress or the president.

It appears outrageous that our news feeds would be stuffed with news of Kim Kardashian’s due date and Kate Middleton’s baby name than on our continued involvement within the Middle East or the ever-increasing interest rates of faculty loans and growing student debt.

In the long term, both beauty and fame fade (and it happens fast). By focusing and including celebrity gossip in our mainstream news, we're sending a message to younger generations that nothing issues as long as they’re famous and pretty.

But, as many people know (a minimum of I hope many of us know). life shouldn't be defined by how beautiful or well-known we are, it is defined by the impact we make on society and the love we spread.

Being smart and clever is far more valuable than being well-known and/or beautiful. Magnificence and fame are easily disposable. Cultural significance and positive change last more and are a lot more respected.

With this, I propose a change in celebrity gossip and the value they hold in our news. If the news reported on how political policy affected these in the social elite somewhat than just their physical look and wardrobe, then their coverage can be legitimately solidified. We live in a society that holds physical appearance because the only essential worth; if we are not stunning or skinny, then we are not important. We need to re-evaluate and re-focus news on the things that matter — resembling education.

Certain, the news holds negative and depressing stories, however that’s because our world is stuffed with such things. We're only hurting ourselves and our price of intelligence by dumbing ourselves down and distracting ourselves with the lives of celebrities instead of trying to improve our own.