The affects on a democracy where entertainment news is more important than important issues is that the important issues are becoming irrelevant while minor things such as the death of
Anna Nicole Smith is becoming more important. It seems that when a massive event takes place in the entertainment world, everything else stops. There are major problems that today's world is facing and as soon as something with a celebrity occurs everything else drifts away, but what people fail to realize is the important factors in the world affect our lives way more than any news about a celebrity, if we are not directly connected to that celebrity.
In terms of politics and the war in Iraq, the media is used as a main tool on getting political candidates ideas across and coverage of whats going on in Iraq. For example during the first week of Anna Nicole Smith's death research shows that CNN made reference to Anna Nicole Smith 141 times compared to the war in Iraq which only was mentioned 27 times, Fox New mentioned Anna Nicole Smith 112 times and the war in Iraq 33 and MSNBC mentioned her 170 times while only mentioning the war in Iraq 24 times.
Anna Nicole Smith is becoming more important. It seems that when a massive event takes place in the entertainment world, everything else stops. There are major problems that today's world is facing and as soon as something with a celebrity occurs everything else drifts away, but what people fail to realize is the important factors in the world affect our lives way more than any news about a celebrity, if we are not directly connected to that celebrity.
In terms of politics and the war in Iraq, the media is used as a main tool on getting political candidates ideas across and coverage of whats going on in Iraq. For example during the first week of Anna Nicole Smith's death research shows that CNN made reference to Anna Nicole Smith 141 times compared to the war in Iraq which only was mentioned 27 times, Fox New mentioned Anna Nicole Smith 112 times and the war in Iraq 33 and MSNBC mentioned her 170 times while only mentioning the war in Iraq 24 times.
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