Editor's Box By Jeffery Barwick [email protected] Assistant Editor

America's celebrity obsession

Many people in the American society are obsessed with celebrities. This is a very unhealthy thing. Throughout the day-to-day lives of many people you can notice them mimicking celebrities, willing to do whatever it takes to be just like them. Being beautiful and skinny is what it takes to be famous. Television has amplifies our celebrity obsession and has made it seem okay to purge yourself in the bathroom of a restaurant, or to starve yourself so you won't gain weight.

It isn't healthy to live that way, constantly worrying "Oh my god, I'm fat," then starving yourself until you lose weight or forcing yourself to vomit the food you just previously ingested. Many people do all of this just to look like a famous celebrity. Celebrities like Nicole Richie, Courtney Love and Britney Spears make it seem cool to get obliviously drunk and drive around, or to use drugs recreationally. All people care about is hearing the bad things in celebrities' lives, it is entertainment.

This entertainment is harming people's lives. The many adults that promote this lifestyle let their children watch this horror flick of celebrity obsession unwind, making it seem fun and cool to go out drinking all night, using drugs and flauntingly showing off their bodies. In no way am I telling anyone how to raise their child, but this just doesn't seem right. No parent wants to see their child on television getting in and out of a car with their unmentionables blinding the public. Unfortunately we thrive off of this immoral, disgusting and vulgar form of entertainment.