What has the world come to when a person calling another person is blown up into a worldwide news story? On Yahoo News, there is an article about how George W. Bush made a call to the Dalai Lama supposedly to check up on his health and well-being. The media can sometimes be a little too much into the business of other people. They should leave people alone enough to let them call other people to have a conversation with them. All people deserve to have some privacy in their lives without being watched and written stories on. Personally I believe that this is the Bush campaign trying to make a good name for the President. This I find is just wrong. Not only is the media exploiting a person’s personal life that we should have no interest in anyway, but the President is using the Dalai Lama as a means of making him seem like a good citizen.
This article just goes to show that the media is way to infatuated with the celebrity world. God forbid you get well known and liked by a community, now you have no personal space because the newscasters will always be breathing down your neck. I do not mean to say that the whole thing of calling the Dalai Lama to see if he is ok is wrong, I am just simply stating that this should not be a world wide story and should be done for the right reasons.
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I agree with you, it shouldn't be this huge. It shouldn't even be a article if the president wants to talk to the Dalai Lama that's fine but we don't need news coverage on it.
On the other side of that though, when a person accepts celebrity status, they accept the disadvantages that come along with it.
Also, if the Bush administration did try to push this on the media, which is entirely plausible, then the president's privacy should be a completely moot point.
I feel that the media does get involved with business way too much. But there is reason to get on his case because what has he done for this country. Not much, so is this meeting with the Dali Lama really going to help us out? it could be a good thing, or it could be something to laugh at.
People are celebrities for no reason at all. It sucks that people don't have the ability to realize what kind of people deserve praise and what kind do not.
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