Answer:
The answer to the question: Allisa Miller says that news focuses on celebrities because:___, would be: one, because the consumers of news are no longer interested in worlwide events, but rather on events that are happening close to them, and in a form affect them directly, and second, because it is cheaper to cover gossip, and it generates more profitability for media broadcasters, than speaking about events that have no impact on people´s interests.
Step-by-step explanation:
Alisa Miller gave a speech on the Classroom Project, TED, in 2010, titled "The News about the News". It is a very interesting video on how journalism has changed throughout time, and how today, it has turned into something completely different from what it once was intended to be. Today, we see the focus of the media on gossip, and rather superficial news, and she explains that the two reasons, at least in the case of America, are: that people do not want to bother themselves with things that do not directly affect them, or affect their lives, and second, because gossip of celebrities who do impact people´s lives is cheaper to get and produces more profit.