bogleech:

Why was 90′s and early 2000′s media THAT bloodthirsty towards just any and all celebrities? Why would the entire only joke of a “comedy” sketch just be like an impersonation of Britney Spears only gross and dumb and people just thought that was the funniest thing all on its own? Is it ever still like that? Like they’d get “tired of hearing” about the latest popular singer or actor and that apparently meant their head belonged on a pike. I feel like audiences don’t tolerate that shit anymore and use social media to shut it down these days.

You see in a lot of stuff from the ‘80s about the “rise of a celebrity culture”, that’s when I came in and it seemed normal to me, but now with a bit of perspective yeah, that the opinions, lifeways or affiliations of creative entertainers were not really something media and the serious world cared much about, from either the serious or entertainment directions

I guess that was the effect of “New Hollywood” with stars trying to bring a more personal creative identity to things, the maturing of TV as a medium, a whole new media ecology around rock stars, the expansion of media and demand for content!

And maybe the 1990s, when Bono was somehow part of the US foreign policy apparatus, was the height of that and the 2000s were the downslope. The Osbornes also a key text.