Just because you read it in a a magazine..

Wow, I have not made an entry in a while.

Not because I've had nothing to rant to you about, oh no. Of course not!

I've had things to rant to you about, it's just that they're a lot of little things, and I didn't think they'd be enough to make up much of an entry.

I was trying to wait until I had a good enough topic that I could write a decent entry about it.

I couldn't think of anything... so I'm going to start a rant and maybe, I'll have more to say about one thing then I think I do and it'll make a big entry! Are you excited?

I was at the hairdresser what would've been a little while ago now, getting my hair done. (I have black hair with red all through it that I need to get redone about every month or so for those of you who don't know.) For those who don't get foils or their hair dyed and may have been living under a rock, when you get your hair dyed you have to wait around for a while to let the colour take to your hair. While you're doing this, you generally read magazines or something like that, ANYWAY.. I was reading some crappy tabloid magazine, I generally just look at the pictures.. cause well... they lie more than politicians.

In the back of said magazine, there's like an extra kinda gossipy section.. or something.. I don't know. But there was a picture of Lindsay Lohan, and the caption was pretty much saying "ZOMG LINDSAY IS GOING BALD."

I really wish I had the photo they put up with me.. because this would be a lot easier to explain. But basically, in the picture Lindsay was putting her hand through her hair, and like pushing it back. Her hair is dyed a lot darker colour than it naturally is, and you could see the regrowth in her hair. There wasn't any hair missing at all, her hair was lighter, and it was simply parting in a way that you could see her scalp. SHOCK HORROR. Infact, I urge you to play around with your own hair, there are ways you can push it and part it, so it looks like you have no hair in a certain place. It happens to me sometimes when I wake up in the morning and I assure you, I am not going bald.

While I was looking at this photo thinking "Are you kidding me?" It occurred to me that many people would read this magazine and take this and every other piece of crap they dish out as gospel. Not even questioning anything that the magazine says, not even thinking about what they're reading and how outrageous it actually sounds. If they took a second to think.. they might realise how stupid and gullible they're being.
I don't know how many people read these magazines, but they're definitely evidence of how gullible people are. 

Not to mention, how pathetic people are. I mean.. the paparazzi really get to me. They spend all their time pestering other people. Following celebrities with cameras getting up in their faces, making up stupid stories, twisting the truth.. they spend their whole lives following somebody else's life.. or ruining it. Don't they have their own lives? Maybe they should do something more constructive with them. Contribute to society? 

Gossiping about celebrities is not contributing to society, sorry to break it to anyone that wanted to do that for a living. 

Being a dedicated Michael Jackson fan my whole life, I've seen how far from the truth tabloids go with their stories, and how much damage it can do. It's easy to manipulate stories, photos, quotes.. anything, to make it sound somewhat plausible. Then again, it doesn't even have to sound half true for people to believe it I've noticed.

I've made a point to make sure I don't believe any rumours I hear or read about the people I like - or even am not a fan of. I don't consider things a fact until I've heard something from the person themselves.

Have you noticed in so many magazines they get their information from "a source" or "a friend of a friend of a friend" or anything really vague and to that effect? 

Even if the person the got the "Facts" from did actually say they knew said famous person.. the fact that they believed the source without even checking it is just proof of either how gullible they are.. or how unconcerned they are with whether something is factual or not.

A lot of stories I've read in tabloids are so transparent you'd only need to trace them back a short way to discover that they are very far from the truth. 

I remember seeing a story about Michael, that said he was anorexic and so weak he couldn't walk. Of course, as evidence, they had a photo of Michael in a wheel chair...

Now, if anyone who read this story about Michael being oh so weak did some research, they would learn that this photo is from the 1993 Soul Train Awards. Where Michael performed Remember The Time. 

If they did a little more research, they'd find out that Michael hurt himself in rehearsals for said performance, and so had to sit down for the whole performance, and afterwards, sat in a wheel chair because he couldn't walk on his injured leg. 

Michael wasn't weak, or anorexic, he was injured. That's why there's no other photos of him in a wheelchair. Not to mention that story was published sometime last year and that photo is from 1993. Could you be more retarded? 

"Well we haven't had a story on Michael Jackson for a while.. let's see what ancient things we can dig up and write absolute crap about." 

Now, I did some googling to try and find that picture of Lindsay Lohan where they said she was going bald. I didn't find the picture, but I did find this article  that claims Lindsay is going bald. I wouldn't have even mentioned it, except I wanted to point out something about the photos included in the article. The photo in the article isn't even close to evidence that Lindsay Lohan is somehow going bald.. it's just a photo of her with blonde hair. I don't' see any hair missing from her head... is it just me?

It also mentions an unnamed source, who says that Lindsay get's "too many" extensions and that's why her hair is falling out. I'm sorry but uh.. extensions don't damage your natural hair as far as I know..If they're crappy quality, they will pretty much fall apart in your hair.. but I'm sure Lindsay Lohan is more than capable of buying extensions that are quality rather than crap.

Regardless of any of that, my point is, this source doesn't even have a name.. we don't know who he is, but he must know everything about Lindsay and her hair... 

All I'm really trying to tell you guys, is don't take everything you read or see on TV or hear from someone or whatever as fact. If you want to know, do your own research, find out. Get the facts before you believe everything. Don't take everything as gospel, because the truth doesn't sell.

♫ Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen don't make it factual. ♪ - Tabloid Junkie, Michael Jackson

xoxo.