VITAMEDIAS

Celebrity Journalism and Other Corruptions: Everyone has a theory about the current problems in journalism. I, too, have one. And with it, I am hoping to break some glass, shatter some illusions, and perhaps get people talking. The critics who discuss the crisis facing journalism today usually miss something substantial when they unleash their attacks on our profession. They choose to ignore the obvious: the journalist as celebrity in our celebrity-driven world. The journalist becomes bigger than the story he or she covers. The journalist becomes a news story, one driven by his own greed and his own ego. For me this helps keep journalism in a crisis from which it may never recover.