In our modern society, the media is dominated by celebrity-focused journalism which has developed significantly over the last century. Journalism is often focused on the personal lives of people, mainly celebrities which include people from the film and television industry, models, musical artists and other famous people in the entertainment world. It is clear that celebrities are a very popular topic to write about in the news as they create entertaining stories and that is what the public wants to read. The relevance of celebrity journalism is often questioned why these stories are important to the public and whether they really need to read them. However, the rise of celebrity culture has caused the changes in our society that the public sphere demands. As Farrell (2013, p. 380) stated, it is clear that celebrities are an extremely popular topic to write about in the news, but it is an extremely divisive form that debases the public sphere. Celebrity-focused journalism is supported by much of the public. public sphere today, and one of the largest public spheres is the Internet. Online journalism and the Internet allow members of the public to freely discuss and debate different issues from all over the world by communicating online. The Internet has become so big that it is the primary way people connect with each other to get news and is bigger than any other communications system. Facebook and Twitter are 2 of the main examples of social networking where people come together to create a public sphere, through these sites information spreads rapidly. Nowadays, most people see major news headlines through stories on the Internet rather than watching television or listening to the radio. Conboy (2013) argues that… middle of paper… this rarely happens because these social issues are instead discussed online. This can also be said for the way in which the majority of the public interviewed the Prior (2010) questionnaire. However, people argue that this does not debase the public sphere because Prior said that people do not watch television to gain knowledge. Taylor and Harris (2008) discussed that the public sphere is now dominated by amorphous and intangible associations", meaning that it has no real structure. This supports Farrell's argument of "downplaying" the public sphere because it appears that people don't really know what they're talking about. Overall, these studies show that celebrity-focused journalism does not demean the public sphere because of the amount of online communication people have with each other and because they are constantly getting the latest news. of the last hour in our modern society..