Do Celebrities Set Most Trends and Ultimately Dictate What Is Normal Behavior?

Question by Warbucks: Do celebrities set most trends and ultimately dictate what is normal behavior?

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Answer by mollyschambers
Celebrities do set the trends i think….but i dont think they have any control over what their behavour is viewed as. The media has THAT control. They decide whther or not Lindsay is crazy or angry or sad or in rehab or whatever. I hate tabloids and i HATE this obsession with “celebrity”. If no one took thousands of pictures of paris hilton no one would care, they’d get on with their lives….

Answer by Everything is Everything
yes because the media brainwashes us to believe that these heroin addicted drunks and immoral haughty taughty liberal idiots are what everyone should strive to be

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