The Unbearable Weight of Fame: Why Celebrity Scrutiny Has Gone Too Far

Ultimately, the excessive scrutiny placed upon celebrities is less about accountability and more about the entertainment-industrial complex’s insatiable appetite for content and the public’s willingness to consume it. It is a form of communal voyeurism packaged as moral concern. A healthy public interest in a celebrity’s professional output is natural; the current state of affairs, where their every human frailty is exploited for profit and clicks, is an unfortunate and often cruel distortion of that natural interest.