There are more than likely riots going on across the country due to the recent split between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Well, at least that is the  media’s portrayal of the event.

It is not strange today to see a kooky tabloid on a shelf at a grocery store with an absurd claim about celebrities on it. It is definitely not strange for people to blindly believe it. That is the kind of treatment celebrities get from the media and frankly they just have to deal with it.

“Brad Pitt ‘in bad shape’ and can’t believe what his life has become as he cries, calls his parents every day”

That is a headline that Daily Mail used to report on the newest information supposedly heard by an inside source. The letters are in bold black, daring the reader to keep reading and learn of the “chaos!” This “inside source” has not been revealed so there is no way to prove if it is real. Yet it is published without question, misleading an abundance of people.

Celebrities are celebrities for a reason; they have some form of talent that people idol or look up to. Maybe that is the reason people feel the need to make false claims that rip them apart.

Famous people already cannot go outside without being bombarded by an array of cameras flashing at them. They cannot go outside in sweat pants without being criticized for their sense of style and they cannot go out on the town with a member of the opposite gender without the media creating a rumor of a new significant other.

“Jen Aniston May Be Throwing Low-Key Shade At Brangelina With Her Necklace”

  A lot of people know that Jennifer Aniston used to be married to Brad Pitt, so it was a tad ironic when Brad and Angelina split. However, the next time Aniston when out, she wore a necklace that looked a little bit like an evil eye. So the media took that as “throwing shade” and so they made it a rumor. Unless Aniston herself told the media she was throwing shade there is no way the public knows that.

Carolina Nuñez Hernandez, a junior at pitman high school, has a theory about the media:

“I think that the media puts things out there that they want to hear themselves, or they want to be true, because they envy them for what they have.”

Celebrities are people too, and the media needs to start respecting their privacy and their motives. Let celebrities go for a run without being assaulted with cameras and fans. Let celebrities go out with their family for dinner, it is perfectly normal! The public and the media alike need to start normalizing normal things, so that celebrities do not feel so bombarded all the time.