If you don't like it, don't buy it (Traitor Authors)

Member Name: moronboy

Product:	Traitor Authors
Date:	22/11/00 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: Entertainment for some

Disadvantages: Boredom for others

The kind of people who attract these books are usually people who have already courted publicity. No-one is going to write books about me because nobody knows who I am and couldn't give a toss. But if you are, to take a random example, a footballer who puts himself in adverts, sells pictures of his frankly comical wedding to a glossy celeb mag and then has the sheer vanity to package this wedding in a book, you can't turn around and squeal 'right to privacy' when other people cash in on the fame you are cashing in on.

The Beckhams are publicity hounds - in her desperate, and happily doomed attempt to get to number one, Victoria Beckham was quite ruthless in co-opting her husband into the campaign. Her profile as a pop star (given her hopeless singing / dancing / speaking in complete sentences skills) is based on her celeb marriage now - so I'm afraid she is up for grabs. The Blairs are exactly the same - it's all very well to complain about media intrusion, but Mr Tony has effectively sold his family's souls to the media devil by rubbing voters' noses in what an ordinary bloke he is, and constantly referring to his kids and how they give him all these insights into our lives blah blah blah.

And as for Diana, at the risk of being stalked by various nutters, well, she did a lot to create her own myth. She was always participating in publicity and front-cover photo ops, and instigated two of the biggest events in her career as a celeb - the Morton book and the Panorama interview. A person who lays bare her (and other people's) private lives in print and on television cannot turn around and complain if that private life remains in the media.

And it certainly isn't people like me, who were at best indifferent to Diana and Posh & Becks and every other media-supported nonentity, who buy these books. I don't even read the serialisations. The people who buy this crap are probably the same people who outw
ardly complain about how awful it all is. Someone must be buying this stuff, and it certainly isn't me.

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