This Story Framing Class, Vicarious Living and Conspicuous Consumption has a lot of truth to it. First off I know from personal experience that watching a lot of t.v. paticularly reality shows can make you want to go out and buy things to bring you closer to the lifestyle of the celebrity that was portrayed in the program. The media will do anything they can to keep the interest of the public. They completely ruin peoples lives by intruding in their personal lives, and by encouraging crazy ass people to chase these celebrities like a ravenous animal after its prey.
Lets be serious!! nobody deserves to have all of their personal life out on display for no good reason other than a few assholes want to make a quick buck. These idiots wouldn't need to invade these peoples lives if the media didn't constantly toot the rich life is better horn. I personally am sick of this and wish that people would knock their shit off and let people lead their own lives and stay the hell out.
The media does a bang up job at making the middle working class look like complete idiots that drool over the rich lifestyle. The truth is that we all do it at some point in our lives which is sad to admit but its the truth. I think Diana Kendall did an awesome job at breaking down the framing of different classes, and I would be interested to read another story by this author.
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Great post this week. I can tell by reading your response that this reading struck you with some emotion. Great job putting it on paper. I love "The media does a bang up job at making the middle working class look like complete idiots..." great commentary.
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