As yet another tell-all tale of sex, drugs and shaking one’s booty hits the bookstores, I find myself wondering do we really need to keep rewarding other people’s bad behavior by buying their books and making them famous? Now I haven’t read this latest, book, don’t realy know who in the hell this woman is, haven’t seen her on any talk shows or whatever. I have nothing against her personally. It just seems to me to encourage young folks to act as foolish as they wanna be. It’ll be all right–once it’s over you can write a book.
Seems to me, growing up there was a lot more emphasis on following the training you got at home rather than the one presented in the street and by the media. Are we shortchanging America’s youth by constantly presenting them with images of folks who do wrong and get rewarded?
Hi Dee,
I couldn’t agree more. My aunts came to visit us a couple weeks ago and we all talked about how America is so starved for media hype that they go over anyone who isn’t even famous! We sit through news telecasts of missing women like that runaway bride and etc. for what? This woman wasn’t anyone known! Why did she suck up press coverage? So what you say about the book world is true too. People don’t even have to be famous these days, just be a drunk, prisoner, ex-kidnap victim or drughead and they can write a book. It gives real authors like you and I, who know our craft a bad name.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Everyone wants those fifteen minutes and they don’t care what they have to do to get them. I still don’t understand why people pay attention to this bad behavior, though. Maybe it’s in the hope that if they do something remotely similar, people will pay attention to them, too.
didn’t paris’ dog write a book?
I have no idea if Paris’ dog wrote a book. I’m sorry, but I can’t read material written by non-humans. I do not care how animals spend their days anymore than they care about how I spend mine. And to think Paris’ pooch probably gets better royalties than I do, too.
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