Why does Paris Hilton and her ilk get more media time than advances in medicine?

Question

What can we do to change the way the media selects the coverage to present?

Answer 1

caues a lot more people buy People than buy the American Medical Journal. its all about the money.

Answer 2

Try to do it here first and then let the media follow. Paris as a model entertains thousands of men because of the use of photography in the media, while advances in medicine only effect the afflicted and the companies or persons who make a profit from creating them.

Answer 3

That question deserves serious analysis and application. Truth is, society is the same as it was 5000 years ago with mainstream consciousness always occupied with the spectacle offered by the richest and most powerful in society. Back then it was pharaohs and priests influencing our minds by showing us the stars as myth. Now its the stars showing us pharaohs and priests in their movies. Irony, yes.
But as long as common tripe is sold to us as "all the answers we need", what feeds our curiosity won't get us anywhere when an epidemic hits, a nuke hit a US city, an asteroid hits the Earth or the global marketplace minimizes our US economy.

Its mass-thinking that moves mountains, because politicians take on issues, the media publicizes trends and the marketplace responds to the consumer. Must a catastrophe happen to alot of us before we realize each of us must smarten up? I truly hope not.

Answer 4

There is a higher rate of younger marketing media viewers and experience-rs, which focus more on the world of sexual appeal, richness and popularity rather than breakthorughs in medicine and psychological examination. In other words, younger, smarter crowds are geared towards experiencing bigger extasis from sexual experiences, material accumulation and social domitations areas. Rather than extasis from gaining greater knowledge of the scientific, observative subjects; like medicine and engineering.

Answer 5

Advances in medicine are important but not everybody can understand them. However, the activities of celebrities is something that everyone can understand and many people are interested in.

Answer 6

Obviously the media and all the people who support the "rags" that print that crappy trash have not learned a damn thing from Diana's death...stop buying the "rag" mags...put them out of business!

Answer 7

Expand the mental horizons of those that watch/read the media, they only put out there what the masses want.

Answer 8

there's nothing we can do. apparently who and what paris hilton does on a daily basis is more important than saving lives. Go figure...

Answer 9

are you foreal who cares, she has money can she do what she wants, obliviously some people like her and she is still making money.