I think that Anthony Horowitz’ comments about the possibility of Idris Elba playing James Bond should be taken seriously. Whether or not it was a mistake or a misinterpretation doesn’t matter. This sort of thing happens all the time in the media. An accomplished member of the celebrity world says something that is not entirely politically correct and the press goes crazy for it. I’m sure in this case, Elba didn’t take it too seriously. Even with such a successful career anyone in the limelight is open to criticism. Horowitz has came out and admitted he was “mortified to have caused offence”. This is also a common stage, typical of a scenario that has attracted the media. There is no suspicion that these comments are racially motivated, not in the slightest.
However whenever things like this do happen, I always look to the mainstream media and look carefully how the cover the ‘story’. I think of the media as -for lack of a better phrase - ‘shit stirrers’. Even if the person who first broke the story knows for a fact that there was nothing sinister in the authors comments, it’s the agenda of the media outlets to make something out of nothing.
Over the years I have come to realise the media and press have a certain agenda to fulfil especially when it comes to celebrities.
I think what I want to get across in this piece is my personal view on how the mainstream media outlets aim to bring out the worst in people, not the best.
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