Many people believe that media coverage of celebrities is having a negative effect on children. To what extent do you agree?

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Every child has a favourite actor or
sportsperson
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or some kind of celebrity whom they follow via various media sources. Some are of the notion that media coverage of these stars has a harmful effect on the children. I completely agree with
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notion as children start idolising these celebrities’ life and
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they are too naive to understand the struggle required to become a celebrity as
media
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the media
frequently covers just their lavish lives. To start with, when a child thinks of the term “celebrity”, the
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image that comes into their mind is a massive house, fancy cars and parties.
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is because these things are what they have been seeing at least once a day on some
tv
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TV
channel or newspaper or even between friends discussing. They idolise
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lifestyle so much so that they start to
unappreciate
recognize with gratitude; be grateful for
appreciate
what they already have.
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, my younger cousin is a huge fan of an Indian actor Ranbir and
he
that male; objective male pronoun
him
idolises him so much that he keeps on asking his parents for the same clothes, apparels and maintains the same hairstyle as Ranbir.
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is a major concern as children stop being themselves and try to adopt the personality and lifestyle of celebrities as shown on tv.
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, young kids try to follow what the media covers which results in them being dissatisfied with what they have.
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, what the media covers
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are
mostly after these starts have achieved success. They seldom talk about the struggle they had to go through so the young generation believes it’s all about luck in life. To exemplify, almost every kid wants to be a millionaire when they grow up because all they have seen on tv are movie stars,
sportsperson
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, CEOs as they are the subject of most of the
screening but
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screening, but
what media fail to show is the years of struggle they had to go through to achieve
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.
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, the media failing to tell the naive
audience
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audience, such
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as these young people about the daunting choices their idols had to take and work they had to do, definitely makes them believe that being famous is based on luck. In conclusion, young minds get influenced quite easily by whatever is shown to them and just showing them the lavish life of celebrities starts to make them feel inferior and they are unaware of
hard work
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the hard work
it takes to become a celebrity. So media coverage of celebrities can leave a negative effect on young minds.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Celebrity culture
  • Glamorization
  • Unrealistic expectations
  • Self-esteem
  • Scandals
  • Role models
  • Moral development
  • Mental health
  • Influence
  • Exposure
  • Social media platforms
  • Charity work
  • Inappropriate behavior
  • Perfection image
  • Negative impact
  • Inspire children
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