Katy Perry is Married to a Crazy Man!
Gingrich Asks Wife for Open Marriage!
Will and Kate Ready for a Baby!
While these headlines seem like average celebrity headlines to us Americans, our French counterparts would be hard-pressed to find similar news stories lining their newsstands. On a recent trip to Paris, I learned that celebrity news coverage is handled very differently in France as compared to the United States. In America, generally speaking, we feel that celebrities’ lives are for us to write about, read about, gossip about, and then blog about. Their placement in our social hierarchy gives us permission to pry into their lives, or so most people believe. The intimate details of their lives become headlines on Us Weekly and People Magazine. The French, however, approach celebrity coverage very differently.
Gingrich Asks Wife for Open Marriage!
Will and Kate Ready for a Baby!
While these headlines seem like average celebrity headlines to us Americans, our French counterparts would be hard-pressed to find similar news stories lining their newsstands. On a recent trip to Paris, I learned that celebrity news coverage is handled very differently in France as compared to the United States. In America, generally speaking, we feel that celebrities’ lives are for us to write about, read about, gossip about, and then blog about. Their placement in our social hierarchy gives us permission to pry into their lives, or so most people believe. The intimate details of their lives become headlines on Us Weekly and People Magazine. The French, however, approach celebrity coverage very differently.
