No Brit or Yank can criticize any other country for being in the grips of a celebrity culture—all one can say is that in Australia it does seem to be about in line with everywhere else. Be it sport (and here that means a wide range of sport from rugby to lawn bowling), or ‘media’--film, TV, radio, or even business and politics, the focus is on the people, and they are usually identified by their first names in the daily paper that gets delivered to our hotel room each day. This is The Daily Telegraph, which seems to be equivalent to The Sun in England and the Daily News in New York—with a dash of the American National Enquirer thrown in.
From one day’s edition, we culled the following:
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