Media whores?

[custardbear]

I'm so fed up with:-
Peter Andre and his GP wife did XYZ to be parental heros
Meghan Markle feels so 'blah blah blah'
Katie price shagged yet another bloke
Amanda Holden flaunts herself and bores everyone yet again
Beckham bunch do yet another yawn activity
I remember my dad, years ago mentioning media whore which I though was a horrible thing to say ... now I'm probably his age when he said it to me and I'm agreeing with him - albeit he's been dead 10'years
I'm feeling very 🙄

@GinDaddyRedux I have apple news and BBC news on my iPhone but have downloaded ES and another platform to help get rid of the drivel

Saying that why the actual fuck do papers pay for this shit anyway - who gives a fuck if Jordan has shagged her eleventy millionth bloke this year, or Amanda Holden feels the only way to get the attention she craves is to get herself quaffed up to the nines and pretend to mow her own lawn --- perhaps the media pays her a few coins but is it worth their dignity? This behaviour is attention seeking and to make money out of it is whorish - fucking hell so people not have moral standards 🙄

Stop reading the bloody daily mail!

Empty vessels make the most noise.....half of them would go to the opening of an envelope

The daily pap walks from Amanda, Vogue, Myleene and a few others who work for Heart are absolutely shameless in every way.

Grasping blatantly and desperately for publicity throughout lockdown with completely unnecessary outings purely for the mutual benefit of these women (no pap walks from Theakston) and Heart, an agreement the marketing dept will have made with these women, which means the women will get paid and Heart gets publicity, the pap gets their cut and the paper gets content in times when there is nothing much going on.

Absolute hypocrisy from a bunch of women who will tell you they are strong, independent feminists then sign up to do braless pap walks for cash during a world wide pandemic.

Then you have people like @DrPatient feeling sorry for them believing the media is hounding them.

Media whores is about right.

@Ilovefishcakes201 - honestly I don't read that ... unless I feel like a laugh 😆
I'm 48 now I realised that was shit many moons ago 🥴

👍 @TheMurk 😎

Yabu.

You could easily ignore it if it annoys you so much. Everyone you have listed I’ve either heard very little or nothing about and I’m on Facebook and Instagram on a daily basis and follow a mixture of things and most of the stuff I have seen are recycled stories from months even years ago.

The Beckhams, I’ve only heard about them celebrating their anniversary and the Duchess of Sussex, the only recent thing I’ve read is her speaking to a Latino charity in Spanish. Also seen articles about Harry and Kate. Interesting how it’s attention-seeking when it’s Meghan, but not when other articles are written by royals.

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@phoenixrosehere - I'm not talking about Facebook and Instagram - sorry to be negative but they're not exactly newsworthy sources, I'm talking about headlines and news of the day - not self 'inflagrations' sites
And honestly, if you've not seen what I'm talking about, you're just in self indulgent sites - not even as high ip on the 'news! Sites as the shit news sites I seem to have linked into somehow lol 😆

sounds like daily mail fodder, if you don't like that kind of stuff get your news elsewhere!

What a vile turn of phrase.

I read the paper daily and don’t see any mention of most of these people. What on earth are you reading?

Lift your standards.

Try the Guardian. I'm sure you'll manage the difference in language.

@trixiebelden77 this is something I've stumbled across since lockdown as don't get a daily paper so rely on what's in my phone.
My standards are variable in all walks of life to be honest. I enjoy all sorts. I'm well educated (PhD scientist with 15 years of post doctoral and escalating experience) so not exactly lacking in ability to find good sources in areas I'm
Interested in- I'm talking about what flicks up on iPhone news platforms

Once again someone demonises the journalists. While some do look for stories most of the time these people send the stories out on purpose. If they don't it's usually just found from their social media. Hardly stalking.

The Kartrashians are a brilliant example of this. Selling themselves to the media for money. Stopped buying magazines when I could not buy something without them in it.

@custardbear

I'm so fed up with:- Peter Andre and his GP wife did XYZ to be parental heros Meghan Markle feels so 'blah blah blah' Katie price shagged yet another bloke Amanda Holden flaunts herself and bores everyone yet again Beckham bunch do yet another yawn activity I remember my dad, years ago mentioning media whore which I though was a horrible thing to say ... now I'm probably his age when he said it to me and I'm agreeing with him - albeit he's been dead 10'years I'm feeling very 🙄

Me too. Which is why I rarely read celeb gossip mags. They so boring.

Some people would swim through a lake of ebola-infected vomit if there were an OK! photographer on the other side.
I think the term used to describe them is 'celebrity'.

So do you ALL hate Megan Markle?

I see the comments,(elsewhere as well) that are downright sickening.
And to think it was only a few years ago that hate was targeted at Kate.

Problem is that lots of women lap this stuff up. Isn't Love Island the most watched show on UK telly?

@Mymomsbetterthanyomom

So do you ALL hate Megan Markle?

I see the comments,(elsewhere as well) that are downright sickening.
And to think it was only a few years ago that hate was targeted at Kate.

I like MM. But I am so tired of reading about her and Harry because so many people read it who hate them (or her especially) and I have to listen to their nasty comments about her. I wish the press would leave her alone. I am not going to spend money ont hose horrid rags that are nasty to MM. I don't want to support that industry. An industry that drags people through the muck and encourages so much spite and bile towards their targets. it's vile. listening to gossip or reading it is partaking in it and I refuse to do that.

@Mymomsbetterthanyomom - not everyone hates MM that's a ridiculous thing to say - albeit she's pretty disliked by a lot of people !

@custardbear

Not everyone hates her. I don't hate her.

However if you look at the number of "negative" articles on her (news reports that have deliberately placed an opinion or an emotional slant on her activities - such as "scheming", "blocking friends", "avoiding her father") then it's easy to see how these articles stoke comments.

If someone reported her doing a charity activity, no slant or comment on it, the comments on Markle would eventually dwindle to a point where she is commented on occasionally, but no fervour.

There are PR people with vested interest in her playing this victim mentality so to speak, who actively encourage the negative stories and the thousands of hateful comments.

If you look at a Daily Mail article on Markle, it attracts on average around six to ten times the number of comments than any major news story.

I'm talking 800 comments for a big news piece on coronavirus, but 6500 (largely negative) comments on a Markle piece.

I don't think I'd particularly care for her if I knew her, so I'm not defending her. But I do think the narrative pushed around her is "she's a victim, she is universally hated on by all".

I can’t be doing with Harry or Meghan. They upped and off for a life of privacy and haven’t been out the media since, hands held to their hearts emoting over race, the environment, the NHS, delivering food parcels and finally Mr White Privilege himself banging on about systemic racism and the empire. After previously calling a colleague a p...., referring to ragheads and dressing in a nazi uniform for a party. I don’t know how he has the bloody nerve. Meghan and Harry are every bit as thirsty for publicity as the beckhams, Katy price, Myleene & Co. shameless and desperate