It is revealing that you have shown zero interest in learning what happened to news coverage and the creation of the cult of celebrity in America, zero, this America suits you.
Your divination leaves a lot to be desired. This thread has nothing to do with any of those things. If you want to start a vanity thread about it I’ll be glad to participate (and agree in principal).
The cult of celebrity goes back a lot further than you’re giving it credit. The cult of celebrity predates America, heck it predates Jesus. The most that’s really happened in America is that when we got more forms of mass communication and mass entertainment we created the bandwidth and opportunity to have more celebrities.