Five years after their romance ended, singers Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai were caught on what the media said was a date at a Taipei bowling alley.
First of all, I would like to make it clear that I'm not a fan of either Jay or Jolin; I'm also not to gossip about their relationship here. But the fact is that relationships between famous singers or movie stars are always the hot issues of some entertainment websites and magazines. It seems headlines of famous people's affairs will always attract attentions from the public. The only way through which people get to know about famous stars is the mass media. People always judge a star not only by what they observe by their own eyes, but more often by how stars are reported in a piece of daily news.
Nowadays, people seem to care less about the reports on popular stars. Of course there are exceptional cases, for instance, Edison Chen's scandal. However, one prerequisite for it to draw public attention and to spur wide discussion is to make sure the news sources are credible. Thinking of few years ago when I was extremely passionate in collecting stars' news, especially my favorite ones, I feel it is so childish and stupid of me to fully convince what reporters had written were the facts.
Years have passed, maybe it's improper for such a big girl to be that gossip, especially when the issues seem to have no interception with my life. What is more, years of experience have taught me that sometimes news itself is just for the sake of making news, so I'd better be neutral towards whatever I am informed with. However, I think it is high time for mass media as a whole, as an important tool to deliver messages to the public, to provide more reliable information. Effective communications emphasize taking responsibility for the things we talk about and the way we talk about them. Our constructions of reality, according to the Social Constructionist Model, often distort our communication. In this sense, I strongly feel it is of great importance how the reporters interpret the situations; they are in the control of whether the public is "informed" or "fooled".
So images can be made so that famous people can be modeled to be either graceful or graceless. To some extent, this could also be labeled as "communication creates individuals". For the case whether Jay and Jolin are in relationship again, it is for both parties of communication to take their responsibilities-- how one side's gonna deliver the message and how the other side's gonna interpret the message received.
