Attention v, Making Money in the Media

There is an article in the Nuvo newspaper called, Balloon Dad and Octomom: Go Away (The stupidity of media attention whores). The article is written by Steve Hammers and he addresses the issue of how people fiend for attention in the media. In the article he mentions about how so many people take part in outrageous publicity stunts or behavior just to seek fame in the world. He even goes to talk about how so many people post thousands of videos on YouTube or Twitter just to have the hopes of getting discovered or get attention like Octomom and Balloon Dad. However, the biggest point he made was the fact that so many people make these attempts just to get so many public views; but they don’t get paid for all the hard work and time they take to do so. Although for most of us, putting our videos on YouTube may be fun, in reality we are giving multi-billion dollar company videos WE make for free and not getting paid for it. Countless times we have seen funny, crazy, or memorable videos on YouTube, some actually being featured on television. But more than likely, none of the people making or featured in the video are getting paid for their work. They are only getting their 15 minutes of fame. Steve Hammers has included “You Tubers” in the same category as Octomom and Balloon Dad as mentioned in the sub title. This article makes you realize the cold facts about posting videos on YouTube as fun as we think they may be. So the big question is, are we stupid? For all of the YouTube videos, Twitter, Face book, and MySpace comments. Giving our ideas, thoughts, pictures, and videos we have created to a company that makes money off of us, while we get nothing but maybe just a small taste of fame.