psychology and infotainment
By surfer222
@surfer222 (1714)
Indonesia
January 29, 2012 7:32am CST
Lately i came across an infotainment which using a psychology expert to analize celebrity and people on TV. Personally i think using psychology expert and similar expertise shouldn't allow to judge other people on media, because i think there's an ethics involved in their profession. If a doctor find someone got HIV, is it give them right to air it on TV without the person's agreement? It's the same way with people who is expert in psychology. I think they souldn't show their expertise if the person didn't ask to be analize. So i think in some way these expert who analize people on infotainment is already violate their profession's ethics.
Did you ever see this on infotainment?
What's your opinion about using some sort of psyhology expert in infotainment?
Is there a rule or ethics that forbid them to do that? (like other doctors)
3 responses
@BLTLife (337)
• United States
29 Jan 12
There is no rule and shouldn't be. This is no doctor-patient relationship. This is people analyzing others through media. Anything you may discover isn't credible and could be wrong because there is no relationship between the observer and the celeb. Also, I feel like this is saying anyone who notices a problem with someone on TV then announces it would also be violating some kind of ethics or law when it's only a random person's own thoughts without direct input from the celeb. Just because a person has a degree doesn't make them any less random than one without. And just because they have a degree doesn't make them right.
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
29 Jan 12
So, is it OK or not for those expert to broadcast their observation on celebrity? Sometimes infotainment was not only using psychology expert but also facial expression expert like in "lie to me" series.
@BLTLife (337)
• United States
30 Jan 12
It is ok. Because we as viewers need to realize everything we see on TV and the internet isn't the truth. What they put on TV is for entertainment and information purposes and if you start believing every expert in any media then we'd just be more confused than we already are.
So this goes back to the main issue. They wouldn't even air it if people didn't watch it. So I don't even blame the networks. I blame the people who gobble it up and only feed the beast. Those who believe it. And if they didn't believe, why would they watch what they know is non-sense?
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
31 Jan 12
i think we view things differently BLTLife... i don't really care what infotainment said about celebrity, what i'm questioning is the appearance of experts... let's use different approach here... let's just said that i'm a doctor, then a news media come to me with a blood sample of celebrity and they want me to analize it. After i analize it, i found that this celebrity have AIDS. Now, as an expert, i know that this celebrity have AIDS, at the same time i don't have doctor-patient relationship with this celebrity, did my knowledge about the celebrity give me the right to publish it on air?
@timetravel (1425)
• United States
30 Jan 12
I majored in mental health and psychology in college. If they are just giving an analysis based on observations of the celebrity, there's nothing wrong with that. Celebrities - by virtue of their profession - have chosen to put themselves out there in the lives of others. If a psychologist wants to analyze certain behavior, he or she can. Anything that is observable can be open for analysis. Yet, if they try to go in to someone's head without permission, that would be unethical.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
30 Jan 12
hey there surfer222,
Good point why try to reveal what you see in a person using a profession that has high moral values and ethics i think this doctor should be removed of his license for bad practices
