MEDIA and CELEBRITY and MADONNAby Christine Trzyna
You may not think much of me for this, such a literary person I am, but I am absolutely interested in the Madonna - Guy Ritchie divorce which is making all the news in Britain and the Internet. At the end of my computer time I go check Yahoo news for the latest. I want to know if Madonna will be generous. If she will leave England. If she has a man waiting in the wings. And of course, how she will recreate herself for the next act of her life since she gets the PRIZE for BEST CHAMELEON. For all that, I recently read the book about his life with her by her talented in many things but for writing brother Christopher Ciconne. Click on the title above to be taken to "How Liz Rosenberg is Killing Christopher Ciconne's Book Tour" with her control of some television media...
Thanks to David Hauslaib's Gossip on the Internet
Q When does someone become public property?
A When they become famous - a celebrity.
Easily this means movie stars, but it can go like this. One day you talk to a reporter about your life, the article appears in People or another magazine, now "everyone" knows you, and so you are now public property, and so your life is not legally protected as private. If any NEWS happens to you, if you become NEWS, reporters and researchers and writers might find you and write about you in the media. Of course you might decline to comment or hire a Public Relations person to do a "spin" on you to help you fix an impression that you feel is erroneous even if it is the truth.
The truth is the key here because people are not committing libel or slander if they tell the truth and further, and getting at the truth is a fetish, and at least in America it is assumed that everyone is entitled to an opinion. Now adays there is even something called ADVOCACY JOURNALISM in which the journalist is not assumed to be able to keep his or her own opinions out of the story. Or let's face it, as an editor just the bit you choose says something about you after all. For instance if you pick and publish information that makes Madonna seem like the greedy and materialistic person she is - cheap with her family and hardworking sibling Christopher for instance - which is what he says - you might be expected to be a fan of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who in his book, reviewed here, spends pages using her as a bad example. So much for her leanings towards Kaballah.
Of course a way to become famous is to write your own memoir when in a sense you have no control over what you've lived but you do have control of what you want to say about it. If it gets on the best seller list people may be asking you about your life from then on. Or you will find your own book at a garage sale being recycled. I like to read the disclaimer statements some memoirists start out with.
Years ago journalists respected public figures like U.S. Presidents by not reporting what they knew about their private lives while celebrity oriented movie magazines did more than put a spin - they fabricated stories about their stars that were barely if at all true to give an impression.
Madonna, I feel, is probably not capable at this point of giving an interview or really saying anything spontaneously (even if it sounds like she is) and without an agenda. I believe she is quite the PR expert and knows how to play the media better than anyone. Which is why maybe it's exciting to see what actually makes it into the press about this divorce and wonder if she planted it there and what she's up to or if she and Liz Rosenberg are actually loosing some control!
I really loved that one article that said Madonna sleeps wrapped in plastic !
You may not think much of me for this, such a literary person I am, but I am absolutely interested in the Madonna - Guy Ritchie divorce which is making all the news in Britain and the Internet. At the end of my computer time I go check Yahoo news for the latest. I want to know if Madonna will be generous. If she will leave England. If she has a man waiting in the wings. And of course, how she will recreate herself for the next act of her life since she gets the PRIZE for BEST CHAMELEON. For all that, I recently read the book about his life with her by her talented in many things but for writing brother Christopher Ciconne. Click on the title above to be taken to "How Liz Rosenberg is Killing Christopher Ciconne's Book Tour" with her control of some television media...
Thanks to David Hauslaib's Gossip on the Internet
Q When does someone become public property?
A When they become famous - a celebrity.
Easily this means movie stars, but it can go like this. One day you talk to a reporter about your life, the article appears in People or another magazine, now "everyone" knows you, and so you are now public property, and so your life is not legally protected as private. If any NEWS happens to you, if you become NEWS, reporters and researchers and writers might find you and write about you in the media. Of course you might decline to comment or hire a Public Relations person to do a "spin" on you to help you fix an impression that you feel is erroneous even if it is the truth.
The truth is the key here because people are not committing libel or slander if they tell the truth and further, and getting at the truth is a fetish, and at least in America it is assumed that everyone is entitled to an opinion. Now adays there is even something called ADVOCACY JOURNALISM in which the journalist is not assumed to be able to keep his or her own opinions out of the story. Or let's face it, as an editor just the bit you choose says something about you after all. For instance if you pick and publish information that makes Madonna seem like the greedy and materialistic person she is - cheap with her family and hardworking sibling Christopher for instance - which is what he says - you might be expected to be a fan of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who in his book, reviewed here, spends pages using her as a bad example. So much for her leanings towards Kaballah.
Of course a way to become famous is to write your own memoir when in a sense you have no control over what you've lived but you do have control of what you want to say about it. If it gets on the best seller list people may be asking you about your life from then on. Or you will find your own book at a garage sale being recycled. I like to read the disclaimer statements some memoirists start out with.
Years ago journalists respected public figures like U.S. Presidents by not reporting what they knew about their private lives while celebrity oriented movie magazines did more than put a spin - they fabricated stories about their stars that were barely if at all true to give an impression.
Madonna, I feel, is probably not capable at this point of giving an interview or really saying anything spontaneously (even if it sounds like she is) and without an agenda. I believe she is quite the PR expert and knows how to play the media better than anyone. Which is why maybe it's exciting to see what actually makes it into the press about this divorce and wonder if she planted it there and what she's up to or if she and Liz Rosenberg are actually loosing some control!
I really loved that one article that said Madonna sleeps wrapped in plastic !
