Twenty nine year old Mario Armando Lavadeira Jr, also known as Perez Hilton, is the renowned celebrity blogger that everyone loves to hate. He was born Miami Florida, but moved to LA to be an actor. When that failed he went into journalism at the gossip rag Star where he wrote for the celebrity gossip column Pagesix. He then went off to the internet to start his own gossip blog called Pagesixsixsix. After being named "Hollywood’s Most Hated Website", receiving death threats and lawsuits, Mario made a new gossip blog and give himself a new online identity; Perez Hilton.
After being up for less then three years http://www.perezhilton.com/ gets about 5 million hits a day. On the website you'll see everything from top celebrities such as Britney Spears getting either praised or ragged on to different everyday stories you hear in the news. On a recent interview on The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd sat down with Perez and got the dirt on his website. Perez claimed that the reason he writes what he does is that he wants to p
ush the envelope and he wants to get people talking. He's all about equalizing and normalizing. "Why should I not report about Lance Bass and his boyfriend, the same way that US Weekly reports about Jessica Simpson and who she’s dating?" says Perez. He wants people to know what's really going on in celebrity news, not just what celebrities' reps want the media to know. In the interview Sherri asks Perez where he got his information and he claimed that everything that is coming from his sources are 100% true and everything else he gets from magazines and other sources. So can you really take in what he says to be true or is it just because it’s from Perez Hilton it has to be true? Well on the website Askmen.com, Perez claims “I get stories because people know that I will never lie or make things up or pay for information,” he says. “I apply a journalistic standard to my work.” After reading this you kind of get a notion that he is doing his job as a blogger, he’s not trying to sugarcoat things or make them worse, he’s telling it how it is. But this causes alot of controversy with the public and the celebrities on the site. Is he reporting celebrity gossip or is he just being rude?
In the interview on The View, Elisabeth points out that on the site there are a group of celebrities that Perez praises and a group that he cuts up weekly. Is that fair? Should he be able to get away with writing the things he does? I personally think that people love what he does and if they didn’t he wouldn’t be getting 5 million hits a day. I think he gets praised for writing things no one else has the guts to say and people love that about him. To be blunt Perez Hilton gets paid to kiss and kick celebrity ass.
After being up for less then three years http://www.perezhilton.com/ gets about 5 million hits a day. On the website you'll see everything from top celebrities such as Britney Spears getting either praised or ragged on to different everyday stories you hear in the news. On a recent interview on The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd sat down with Perez and got the dirt on his website. Perez claimed that the reason he writes what he does is that he wants to p
ush the envelope and he wants to get people talking. He's all about equalizing and normalizing. "Why should I not report about Lance Bass and his boyfriend, the same way that US Weekly reports about Jessica Simpson and who she’s dating?" says Perez. He wants people to know what's really going on in celebrity news, not just what celebrities' reps want the media to know. In the interview Sherri asks Perez where he got his information and he claimed that everything that is coming from his sources are 100% true and everything else he gets from magazines and other sources. So can you really take in what he says to be true or is it just because it’s from Perez Hilton it has to be true? Well on the website Askmen.com, Perez claims “I get stories because people know that I will never lie or make things up or pay for information,” he says. “I apply a journalistic standard to my work.” After reading this you kind of get a notion that he is doing his job as a blogger, he’s not trying to sugarcoat things or make them worse, he’s telling it how it is. But this causes alot of controversy with the public and the celebrities on the site. Is he reporting celebrity gossip or is he just being rude?In the interview on The View, Elisabeth points out that on the site there are a group of celebrities that Perez praises and a group that he cuts up weekly. Is that fair? Should he be able to get away with writing the things he does? I personally think that people love what he does and if they didn’t he wouldn’t be getting 5 million hits a day. I think he gets praised for writing things no one else has the guts to say and people love that about him. To be blunt Perez Hilton gets paid to kiss and kick celebrity ass.
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