American households have been ringing with the sound of Demi Moore's frantic friend's voice telling paramedics that Demi is "burning up" and "convulsing" from inhaling too much nitrous-oxide. This is due to News Stations obtaining the actual 911 call that Demi's friend made and freely playing it for the world to hear, redacting only a few portions for privacy issues. However, no actual consent has been given by Demi to allow this call to play. Demi's private life has been common household knowledge long before this incident thanks to her recent split with her much younger husband Ashton Kutcher has taken over the twitter feeds. (Demi is one of the most active celebrity twitter users). But is playing the 911 call revealing that she has been smoking too much and is convulsing on the news really at the same level as the tabloids that gossip about her relationships? This exploitation of her life seems to be mimicking the video that went viral a couple years ago showing the death of a luge slider which horrified his family when it was played on the national news. We need to ask ourselves if it makes it OK to exploit people's personal lives just because they are a celebrity and they choose live in the public eye. While some things are important for the public to know, such as morals of possible presidential candidates being (or not being) acted upon, some celebrities simply wish to share their talent with the world and nothing else. We cannot assume that they are automatically "narcissistic" and "insecure" and "live off of the adoration of their fans" simply because they are a celebrity as they do in Good Morning America's report. And finally we should ask ourselves "why should we care?". Why should we spend all day analyzing how healthy these people's relationship's are and what their motives of self-destruction seem to be when it's clear that few of us have our own lives under complete control. Who are they to us? They provide a service of entertainment and art for our own enjoyment. They are not our friends and they don't effect our life.
Demi Moore was sent to the hospital on a possible overdoes. I hope she gets better because I respect her work as an actress.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/demi-moores-911-call-released/story?id=15456594#.Tyl6e8Wmh2A
Anya, this is an problem that has been circulating since the media went into a dramatic upraise over 100 years ago. Since the beginning of the media there 'famous' people have always been exploited for use by the media. Why? Because it gets them attention and money. Its all about money to them, they don't care about the lives of the famous people. The media pulls the easily captured attention of the populous and sucks them in with all the drama mainly because as humans we love drama. Its unfortunate it truly is, but you have to look at one thing, if these famous people didn't do this stupid crap in the first place then maybe we wouldn't have as much of these problems.
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