Waarom doen we dit

We receive the most extraordinary emails at info@amayzine.com. From press releases introducing new washing machines or headphones that measure your heart rate to invitations to arts and crafts gatherings. We also receive a daily email from a photo press agency with an overview of their paparazzi highlights of the past 24 hours. The pictures are foreseen of catchy headlines hoping to get an ‘OMG we have to get this story let’s buy the pictures’.

That’s what I assume anyway. Somehow these mails have become my daily high and daily low for a variety of reasons. Here’s a summary of the titles that we saw last week: ‘Kelly Rutherford wants peace’ (a photo of Kelly making a peace sign at lunch). ‘Anne Hathaway sticks her tongue out’ (a picture of Anne Hathaway sticking out her tongue). ‘Malin Akerman does groceries’ (you can fill this in). ‘Sam Worthington hides out’ (a picture of Sam walking on the streets wearing a cap). ‘Princess Beatrice uses parking meter’ (again not hard to picture).

Sometimes I just get fed up with all this nonsense. 

I know my line of work is not about solving world problems but it surprises me how far we go to accommodate our superficial interests. It’s hypocrisy, I know. As a regular reader of the Daily Mail website I know more about the Kardashians than I’d like to admit. But sometimes it’s just tiring and all that babbling just wears me out. If a supermodel farts we read about it everywhere. If two befriended actors go out for coffee the paparazzi make over hours because there might be more to it. And apparently we’ve come to the point where wearing a cap or using parking meters is news.

Again I’m aware of the hypocrite in me and I understand those photographers are only doing their job and that we really can’t do anything about it but I had to get it off my chest. To balance out my gossip levels I’m going to read a deep article in the NYT. After that I’ll just browse the Daily Mail very briefly.