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This is amazing. Especially in a time that wasn't so obsessed with social-media and celebrity. Why was there no black bar again?

• dalke 12y ago
  "wasn't so obsessed with ... celebrity"? Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_magazine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_magazine: > This genre of magazine flourished in North America in the 1950s and early 1960s. The title Confidential alone boasted a monthly circulation in excess of ten million, and it had many competitors, with names like Whisper, Dare, Suppressed, The Lowdown, Hush-Hush, and Uncensored. These magazines included more lurid and explicit content than did the popular newspaper gossip columnists of the time, including tales of celebrity homosexuality and illegal drug use. Newspapers were full of celebrity stories, starting with the Hollywood gossip columnists of the 30s and 40s, like Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. Jackie Kennedy's hair style, pillbox hat, and oversize sunglasses influenced a generation of women.
  • msie 12y ago
    Things are different now. 24-hour news cycle, realtime reporting of celebrity activities, celebrity images managed by a team of experts...
    • dalke 12y ago
      Obsession is an aspect of the recipient. What you listed are aspects of the supplier. Bobby Fischer was obsessed with chess. Modern chess players have access to a lot more information about chess; records of all of the chess tournament plays, high quality chess computers, on-line play. That doesn't mean that Booby Fischer was less obsessed than modern players. Newton in his early years was obsessed with science. Modern scientists have access to an entire industry and government infrastructure for supporting science. That doesn't mean that modern scientists are fundamentally more obsessed about science than Newton was.
• vacri 12y ago
  It's weird that you deride celebrity culture with 'obsessed', then immediately ask for a celebrity-acknowledgement device.
  • msie 12y ago
    No, not really. To call it that would be disrespectful to Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie.
• xacaxulu 12y ago
  Ah yes, the mythical utopian past, where none of the bad things happening today existed.
  • serge2k 12y ago
    especially good in a thread where is topic is a response to a young biracial girl who was feeling left out and actively disliked because of her race.
  • msie 12y ago
    No, i didn't mean that. It's worse now.