My latest over at the NY Daily News may slightly violate the Tatler’s Charlie Sheen Free Zone, but there’s a point to be made.
Regardless of what you think of Sheen, it’s pretty clear that we’re feasting on the demise of a troubled man with the help of an enthusiastically complacent media.
Networks “have been relentless in recent days in aiding and abetting the epic meltdown of a celebrity who happens to be the biggest star on the biggest comedy,” James Rainey writes in the Los Angeles Times. “Are they all that different from the two live-in young ‘goddesses,’ whom the actor keeps around his Beverly Hills home?”
But then again, the media are only selling what they know we want to buy. Aren’t we the very voyeurs who want to get in on Sheen’s threesome?
I agree. If this was any normal person people would have sympathy for a troubled person maybe with a drug problem or psychological problems who needs help. But because he is fameous everyone wants to get on the bandwangon criticizing him and airing his problems in public.
People are jealous success and like to see it crash, but if they had to deal with that level of success many people would do just as bad a job of handling it.