媒体对明星的报道不利于儿童

雅思写作题目：

Many people believe that media coverage of celebrities is having a negative effect on children. To what extent do you agreeor disagree?

When you read news, you will find that so many reports concern celebrities. It almost seems that people care more about how celebrities live their life than about how the government changes its policies. However, to a large extent, the incessant coverage of celebrities on the media does a lot of harm to children.

The first negative impact results from children’s imitation of celebrities’behaviors. It is not uncommon that children dress themselves like some pop singers or movie stars. This level of imitation is acceptable, but if the media expose too many details of celebrities’ life, including some of their bad habits (drinking and smoking, for example), children might assume that those behaviors are cool and fashionable, so they will start to do so on their own. In this case, the media coverage of celebrities becomes a potential risk to children’s health.

In addition, many celebrities are seriously underweight, which can become a very misleading signal for children. Let’s be honest, children don’t have a clear understanding about what kind of body shape is healthy or fit, so they will naturally learn from those thin celebrities. As a result, they might find that they need to lose weight by eating less. If things go worse, they might develop anorexia, which can seriously damage their body health.

Finally, many children might seek shortcuts in their life rather than make efforts on their study. When children see celebrities make a huge fortune by shooting a commercial, they certainly want to have that ability. That is why so many children post their pictures or videos on the Internet in an attempt to get famous. In the meantime, their study, which should be their priority, is cast aside.

Overall, though the media need to report celebrities in order to increase readership, we have to admit that this is doing great damage to children’s physical and mental health.