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

Every child has a favourite actor or

sportsperson

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

this

notion as children start idolising these celebrities’ life and

also

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

first

image that comes into their mind is a massive house, fancy cars and parties.

This

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

this

lifestyle so much so that they start to

unappreciate

recognize with gratitude; be grateful for

appreciate

what they already have.

For example

, 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.

This

is a major concern as children stop being themselves and try to adopt the personality and lifestyle of celebrities as shown on tv.

Hence

, young kids try to follow what the media covers which results in them being dissatisfied with what they have.

In addition

, what the media covers

is

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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

, 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

this

.

Thus

, the media failing to tell the naive

audience

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audience, such

such

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.