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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63746.Fame_Junkies_The_Hidden_Truths_Behind_America_s_Favorite_Addiction?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619076m/63746.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63746.Fame_Junkies_The_Hidden_Truths_Behind_America_s_Favorite_Addiction?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35855.Jake_Halpern">Jake Halpern</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5038495?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>I picked up this book because I have several star struck nieces who like to keep tabs on stars with ET, and other such shows. There was some intesting info in it. And I didn't disagree with most of the conclusions, but... <br/> <br/>I find it a bit hard to bite that what holds true for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders pertains to adults. The polling of those kids takes place at a time when most of us had more time on our hands than we ever would again, no life experience, and relatively few commitments outside the home. I'm not sure this group reflects the rest of the population very well. <br/> <br/>It may be that the reason every one seems to know what the star of the moment is doing, is that it gets shoved down our throats. If you didn't want to know who was the father of Anna Nicole's baby - you basically had to turn off your TV and radio, not look at a magazine cover and stay off any internet news sites - for weeks!! My husband and I cancelled our subscription to Newsweek years ago because it seemed to be heading to a tabloid format. <br/> <br/>The whole argument from the media "we only produce what people want to hear" is for the birds. Check out the variety of entertainment that is being acquired through enterprises such as Netflix. There is good demand for something other than the top box office films (not that they're all bad - but they're not all good either). <br/> <br/>I don't doubt that entertainment is full of "fame junkies" - but don't you think there are also "artists" out there who feel a need to express themselves and to them the dog and pony show is just a necessary evil? <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/197742?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>