JELLYFISH JOURNALISM
by
Anthonystjoseph
In the past, journalist and most news
outlets have usually only reported the news and have always held themselves
back when becoming part of the news. The
creed has always been, ‘report the news, don’t become the news’. Well in this fast paced and modern day world
of rapid fire media, some news outlets are getting tired of sitting around
waiting for news to happen so they have decided to CREATE news.
We have all been slowly watching it happen
as news sources, and I wish I could say that I am using that term loosely here
but I am not, such as TMZ, find subjects that they can provoke into creating
news. The type of news creating I am
speaking of came to a fruition with Amanda Bynes. TMZ and others would constantly provoke this
young woman and get her to say things that they and the rest of the media world
would consider newsworthy. TMZ had
already fine tuned there trademark behavioral pattern of paparazzi catching
celebrities or so called news worthy people on camera and asking provocative questions
until the willing or unwilling prey said something that they could call news…
With Amanda Bynes it got so outrageous that
I realized this was a new form of journalism.
I realized that these vulture paparazzi were now basically like little kids
on a beach who came across a jelly fish and would try to poke the jelly fish
with a stick to see if they could get the jelly fish to do something
exciting. I decided to start calling
this form of journalism whenever I see it as ‘Jellyfish Journalism’ and
realized that it was a sickening form of journalism that should be cast aside
and not given any lasting credibility.
I found myself in the Amanda Bynes
situation truly hoping that these kids, i.e. media, would find a new jelly fish
to poke with their camera sticks and silly questions because it was clearly
affecting this woman’s state of mind as well as her behavior of acting out for them. Because just like the little kids on the
beach who have no concern at all as to whether the stick is harming the jellyfish,
these paparazzi have no concern for the harm they are doing to these human
beings called celebrities. In the Amanda
Bynes situation, it was clear that they were doing harm.
What further incensed me in the Amanda
Bynes Criminal Case of being arrested was that TMZ actually went to the scene
of the crime and found what they felt was broken glass and then called the
police and said, ‘We found broken glass!’(Amanda Bynes had allegedly thrown a
glass smoking pipe from her apartment window when the cops showed up). Here again they have broken the creed of
journalism and were becoming part of the news.
Thankfully in this case the cops told TMZ, ‘Thanks but no thanks’.
Well now the paparazzi are focusing on a
different jelly fish in the form of one of their favorite jelly fish, Kanye
West. A few days ago Kanye West laid
down the gauntlet and informed the paparazzi that he did not want, or I should
say he informed them that they WILL NOT speak to him and I think he told them
not to speak EVER to anyone… This
article is not about him and his manifestos so I cannot get into him OR his
manifestos since I do not know too much about him. I could not name a Kanye West song to save my
life. This article is about the fact
that the paparazzi saw that they had him going and they pounced.
Then Kanye flies back into LAX which was the
scene and pedestal for the ‘Manifesto de Kanye’ and what did the paparazzi
do. They all started creaming and cramming
to get at him to see whose stick would rile the current jellyfish on the beach. The paparazzi whose stick got the jelly fish,
Kanye, to move, was so excited that he got the jellyfish to move that while
Kanye was trying to wrestle his camera from him he was actually smiling while
Kanye was physically assaulting him. If
you look at the picture of the paparazzi in what appears to be a headlock you
will see the biggest smile on his face as he realizes, ‘I’M NEWS, I’VE DONE IT! My career is set, and PLUS, I get to sue this
guy now and get PAID!’ All this while
the paparazzi himself was the aggressor and all the jellyfish was doing was
making the dumb mistake of getting caught on the beach. Note to Kanye: Take a private plane man! Get off the beach!
So what happens next? All the so called legitimate news channels
across the world carry the story calling it news and now felony charges may
possibly be charged against Kanye as the supposedly attacked paparazzi shops
for new homes in Malibu with his payoff for being ‘assaulted’… And clearly he was ‘assaulted’ because an ambulance
had to be called to attend to his smile from the altercation of his career
making actions. One of the paparazzi,
who was there at the scene, says on camera to the ‘legitimate’ news channel of
the town I’m currently in, “Something has to be done. Someone’s gonna get hurt!” ARE YOU KIDDING ME! You are the instigators in ALL these
incidents. What has to be done is that
YOU need to go home and leave these people ALONE! You are a reporter of the news, not the
creator of the news, try and remember that.
I have removed TMZ from my favorites and
will no longer visit their website which is the home and nucleus of Jelly Fish
Journalism for I cannot support manufactured and created ‘news’ for the sake of
entertainment. I am sure that there will
be charges filed against Kanye West in this litigious world by the paparazzi
who was actually the instigator of this incident. I am sure they will have a judge like the one
who gave Chad Johnson thirty days in jail for giving his lawyer an atta-boy in
court. I am sure there will be a jury
like the one in the Trayvon Martin Trial who think its okay to trample on folks
rights and liberties. I am sure the
mentality of people who think its right for George Zimmerman to go free will
prevail in this case and the Jelly Fish Kanye West will be punished for washing
up on the wrong beach with the wrong kids and their sticks.
We need to stop this real fast and get
back to the news outlets REPORTING the news and not CREATING the news.
By
Anthonystjoseph
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P.S. And in the words and manner of one of
my new favorite folks, “I’ve had it!”
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