With the latest 'intervention' by 'celebrity', in this case Paddy Doherty of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Celebrity Big Brother fame saying that the travellers at Dale farm should receive public support to prevent their eviction, we see once more celebrity speak up on behalf of minority and achieve great publicity.
Imagine the outcry had a TV celebrity said of Dale Farm that "they break the law, they exploit the system, kick them all out now".
Mass media works well to have every celebrity reading from the same hymn sheet, or saying nothing at all.
True, occasionally one celebrity does cross the lines, but they're slapped down fast, or it's a publicity stunt to revive a flagging career and they're soon back on board.
It's okay to take drugs, use hookers, get up to every kind of shenanigan going, but the one crime in media is to break the party line which says that only certain views are ever acceptable.
You can be a murderer, drug addict, anything, you can still be a celebrity and find much work, but there are laws by which you must abide.
Thou shalt never say anything negative about a minority.
Thou shalt support rights for minority, no matter the extreme they may be taken to.
Thou shalt celebrate diversity in all its forms, enrichment, all cultures and people (save for the straight, white English - mock as you will!).
You'll get a bit more leeway if you are a minority yourself, but don't push it and say too much about other minorities.
Should you think differently you will hold your tongue, or else.
No other views may be tolerated, you'll never work again!
Next to every view presented by celebrity conforms to those tenets, there is very little dissension or deviance, although some very minor but controlled dissension is allowed to keep up appearances.
Should a celebrity be needed to champion a given cause then one will be raised from obscurity to become that celebrity mouthpiece.
Since - sadly - many are highly influenced by celebrity, it's obvious that those views are eventually ingrained in viewers, they are the only acceptable views and the figures people see day in and day out apparently hold them. They must be right.
The whole situation is an artificially created and self perpetuating one.
Watch when a clumsy - or brave - celebrity dares make a remark not in keeping with the tenets of the media masters. The lynch mob descends, the attack dogs are unleashed. By choice or fear celebrity complies in order to remain celebrity and retain the many benefits that come with fame.
Controlled mass media decides who shall achieve fame, and the values which they shall represent - which, in turn, decides the values that many will seek to emulate.
The controlled mass media creates an entirely artificial environment where only one view is allowed.
There is a cult of celebrity, indeed it is a multi-cult of celebrity, nothing else is permitted, mass media granted fame allows only one opinion to be voiced by the celebrity icons we are encouraged to idolise and pay attention to.
With the latest 'intervention' by 'celebrity', in this case Paddy Doherty of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Celebrity Big Brother fame saying that the travellers at Dale farm should receive public support to prevent their eviction, we see once more celebrity speak up on behalf of minority and achieve great publicity.
