Every mainstream newspaper, magazine and TV station resort to promoting the disintegrating health and wealth of the former media darlings.

I am bored rigid by headlines such as 'Britney in rehab' or 'Amy won't eat any'. Journalism graduates surely did not work their butts off through university to end up writing about Angelina Jolie's rib cage?

So why on Earth do they waste their energy writing about it you might ask?

My reply would be, they don't write articles at all, they write captions for large pictures featuring a powder filled nostril and then regurgitate the same baloney that some faceless editor made up six months ago.

Perhaps they may go as far as to create an insider's story while sat on the toilet one afternoon, but then if society is so gullible as to pay money for their lies, why should they work any harder?

The stories that annoy me the most are the condescending ones about how a certain celebrity needs help which always comes with a 'heart rendering' photo of a haggard superstar desperately trying to escape the wall of paparazzi surrounding them. The fact that the paparazzi would not be there if that same media was not paying them large sums for the pictures is a non issue apparently, how hypocritical can people get?

The media believe that their readers want to know the inside and outside of every bozo to so much have uttered lalala on a record or shown their backsides in the big brother house.

Perhaps we are too lazy or depressed to commit to hard news on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The younger audience whom this celebrity crud is aimed at are not given the option of genuine newsworthy stories which might actually inspire them to aim higher in life than going commando to the Ivy Bar with a reality TV reject.

It is widely acknowledged that the world of the professionally stick thin idols are a dangerous commodity.

The media thrives on regaling us about which woman is more skinny than the next and even rates them 1-10 for their twig-like appearance. Of course it messes with the minds of the teenagers who aspire to be like their idols. They see all the attention these women get for their wasted bodies and distant drug heavy eyes. What is frightening is that the images they see are far worse off camera because lets not forget; the camera adds approximately 10lbs.

With the onslaught of star diet secrets continuing to invade every publication it seems unlikely that this dreary, depressing and disturbing culture will be reformed any time soon. If that were to happen then mainstream journalists and photographers might have to get off their bums and do some real work, what are the chances of them encouraging that?

Drug addiction, suicide attempts, self harming and food phobias are the most blatant forms of attention seeking possible, especially within the world of celebrity. Eventually they become cries for help from the lonely. It is not something a person aspires to, it is somewhere they descend to.

Those who aim to profit from the glorification of peoples weaknesses do not hold the power they credit themselves with; they just prove that they are people whom, each morning, wipe off their morals the way others wipe poo off their shoe.

Come on media moguls, get a conscience. We would prefer to have slimmer magazines rather than be used as your excuse to victimise the too famous.