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<title>Rags or Real News: What's the Media's Fascination with Celebrity?</title>
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<title>Judy Sheldon</title>
<link>http://www.newsflavor.com/Opinions/Rags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770#comment143413</link>
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<![CDATA[I have not taken an interest in celebs for a very long time. I outgrew that fascination when I grew up. lol<a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsflavor.com%2FOpinions%2FRags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770%23comment143413"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsflavor.com%2FOpinions%2FRags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770%23comment143413" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 20:47:00 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Lucy Lockett</title>
<link>http://www.newsflavor.com/Opinions/Rags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770#comment143010</link>
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<![CDATA[I agree with you and john but I find amazing that people pay money for it! what???<a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsflavor.com%2FOpinions%2FRags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770%23comment143010"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsflavor.com%2FOpinions%2FRags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770%23comment143010" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 05:08:36 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>John</title>
<link>http://www.newsflavor.com/Opinions/Rags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770#comment139607</link>
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<![CDATA[Very few people *care* about what happens to these celebrities, it's just entertainment. The sympathy argument is unlikely to wash, given the number of these z-listers who, as you say, attract the attention on purpose. And good luck persuading the paparazzi, who make their living taking those shots, or the magazine editors, who have to compete with their rivals or drop off consumers' radars altogether.<br />
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All very depressing really, but there you go.<a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsflavor.com%2FOpinions%2FRags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770%23comment139607"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsflavor.com%2FOpinions%2FRags-or-Real-News-Whats-the-Medias-Fascination-with-Celebrity.119770%23comment139607" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 05:36:58 PST</pubDate></item>
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