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[update] New sentinel article, May 6th
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thrush
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[update] New sentinel article, May 6th

Didn't see this anywhere.

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View from Earth: Celebrity Culture
By HANNAH SAKS
Reading the External Edition of the Perplex City Sentinel over the past few weeks has made me realise that our societies are strikingly similar in many ways, some of which are not entirely favourable. Articles on singers like Joya and her possible pregnancy draw remarkable parallels with stories that fill many newspapers here on Earth.

Our world seems increasingly more concerned with the lives and loves of so-called celebrities than the more important issues that affect us all. Although it does not seem that the citizens of Perplex City are quite so concerned with which celebrity is dating whom, how long is it before these articles start to become more commonplace in your newspapers?

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In our society we are plagued with scandalous headlines announcing break-ups of marriages and pop groups and our youth look at women who have married rich sportsmen as role models. As newspapers and TV become more and more obsessed with these celebrities, so the common public become more and more obsessed with becoming a celebrity themselves. Thus, the creation of reality television has allowed almost anyone to turn into a celebrity for five minutes, until the rest of the public becomes bored with them and look for a new idol.

Of course, just like in Perplex City, there are many citizens of Earth who are intelligent and not so caught up in this obsession, but I write this article as a warning to you, the readers of the Sentinel -- although it is OK to admire singers, etc., you may want to think about whether or not it's really so important to know about every aspect of their lives because you may find that one day your news outlets no longer cover the issues that really matter, just the latest news on the state of a celebrity's marriage.

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Morning_Star
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Well that confirms the idea that the news here and there bare resemblance. Which is a little odd if they're so far ahead of us (timewise) as one would assume that they would have gone through similar periods earlier in their history rather than in parralel to ours...maybe they aren't as advanced as we thought.

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thrush
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It almost seems like they have developed a kind of Earth-fetish, where they take a lot of our current cultural characteristics and mimic them.
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umm, people, this was written by one of our own: the sentinel recently introduced the "View From Earth" column so that we can write in and have articles published... So no, this doesn't point to us having similar news, hannah just wrote it based on that

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Nice article Hannah! Smile

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an excellent debut for the View From Earth column, hannah! maybe your fee will go towards the mortgage you must have taken out to buy that pack from ebay!! Very Happy
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erm... Joya is the equivalent of Britney Spears? Razz

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WTG Hannah!
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HAHA jeez, i never thought they'd use that Very Happy

when i sent it, i got an autoresponder back saying we are unable to respond to every email bla bla and that if they were interested in running the article they'd contact me, but they didn't Confused which is why i didn't think they were going to run the article.

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Hannah, now that you're a bigtime celebrity journalist, I think you need your own entourage... failing that, of course, your own primetime news show.

The View From Earth with Hannah Saks Wink
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Marrec wrote:
Hannah, now that you're a bigtime celebrity journalist...

Surprised Which celebrity are you dating? I MUST KNOW!
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SpaceBass wrote:
Marrec wrote:
Hannah, now that you're a bigtime celebrity journalist...

Surprised Which celebrity are you dating? I MUST KNOW!

Very Happy

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Its great to see you in the Sentinel Hannah! Now we can learn about THEIR culture and OUR culture as well! Very Happy

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Go Earthlings! Hannah, don't they realize what happens when you let humans in? *inquires politely of perplexians 'I say, do you have a flag? No? would you like to use ours?'*
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Minor update, but Hannah now has a picture attached to her article:

http://perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/view_from_earth.html
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