Psychology and Celebrity: Teen Pop Culture

Today I was reading an interesting article online about "The Culture of Celebrity" . It is scary how infatuated our society is with the lives of celebrities. Jill Neimark writes, "Celebrity in America has always given us an outlet for our imagination, just as the gods and demigods of ancient Greece and Rome once did. Celebrities are our myth bearers; carriers of the divine forces of good, evil, lust, and redemption." I'd rather read about Zeus and Apollo than the details of Britany Spear's latest disturbing episode. I was shocked when I did a bit of research and found that The National Enquirer had a circulation of 2 million readers (more than The New York Times which has the third largest circulation in the United States).