Celebrity, past and present

• Autores: Sharon Marcus
• Localización: Public culture, ISSN-e 1527-8018, Vol. 27, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 1-5
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the 1920s, gossip columnist Walter Winchell catered to a formidable public appetite for celebrity news, reaching about 50 million Americans via his weekly radio show and daily newspaper column. Winchell relished the power his column gave him: “Democracy is where everybody can kick everybody else’s ass…. But you can’t kick Winchell’s” (Gabler 1994: xiii). Precisely because public opinion had become such a formidable political force, the autocratic few who shaped it were cushioned from its blows.