Media pay a lot of attention to the lives of famous people, especially of politicians on one hand and celebrities (pop stars, actor and actresses) on the other. The question is if there is any positive impact of making their lives public and open to public scrutiny.
Firstly, there is a problem of the definition of media which we speak about and definition of public scrutiny. As I am using the word media, let me use it for “correct media” only, so I mean only CT channels from Czech TV and Czech Radio channels. I separate other media as “noncorrect” because I think the journalist culture in the Czech Republic is going down day by day and there is a strong dictate of advertisement and firms which are paying for it. So other media do not give us relevant information. The second word definition, which I would discus, is the public scrutiny. With the reference to vocabulary, public scrutiny is “examination in all possible details”. So I will speak about the examination of politicians because the celebrities are the target of “non correct media”, in my point of view.
Secondly, I try to evaluate the public scrutiny level of Czech politicians in comparison to other countries. I have only particular knowledge of the level of public scrutiny in the USA from my short stay there and from the other type of the media which I have not mentioned yet, from the Internet. It seems to me that the level of public scrutiny in the Czech Republic is very low. Many people have only a limited time period in their day scheduler to read information from newspapers and Internet news services about politicians and their activities. So they have no idea about other ways to examine the politician’s activities and finally they lose their ability to remember that before election there were promises which were forgotten after election and again presented when the next election is in the so called election year.
Finally, needless to say that there is a small group of people, very often absolvents of universities, who discuss with the politicians on the “practical level of the concrete technician problems” for example though their own articles and they have no ambition to exam private life of politicians.
Taking everything into account, in the Czech Republic there are two main group of people, one big group of passive people which have extremely low level of public scrutiny to politicians and the second small group of active people with different ideas about politicians, but both of them without the active scrutiny with any impact on private lives of politicians. Nevertheless, there is the other point of the view to this problem, the symbol of this is the newspaper Blesk, but it is not my cup of tea.
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