Artist as a object of media (bonus post)

Recently, There is one big issue that booming in Indonesia. A video porn with duration of 15 minutes, spread around the Internet. the person inside suspect as Ariel , the leader of phenomenon band in Indonesia, with his girlfriend Luna Maya, a famous model in Indonesia. because of this video, both of them are not be able to perform normally in front of public, even the girl has a very bad pressure and depress.

This is not the first case in the Entertaiment world, previously, If you can recall there is one blue video of Taiwan artist Edison Chen and Gillian Chung that spread in the internet. This case happen because Edison was careless and make a third party having their video and spread in the internet.

The fact, both of the video is a real video.
So, what actually happen in the society? the artis not only become an entertainer but also as an object "entertainment"

there is two issue that can be dicuss; where is the privacy of the artist? and what kind of knowledge that society will get from this issue?

Knowdays, the privacy of the artist become risk. Artist are mean to be public figure that always close with the media, but it doesn't mean everything that related with them can be a public consum. With the development of the media nowdays, we cannot doubt that the issue spread very fast with everybody are ready to receive the information from the new media. for example is the video of luna maya and ariel was spread officially in youtube only 3 hours before You Tube officially delete it, but now it's available can can be downloaded free. the media that we use now is so fast, different with last time. It's because we are in the middle of revolution from an old media to new media ( Kress & van Luween, 2006)

In the other hand, artist is always be be a role model. Role model is someone that help us to become the person we want, to be insipre to make a difference, we need to choose wisely so that will help to be a better person (ben rubenstein, 2010) with their perfect look and talent and skill their deserve to be more than normal people. but, If the role model of the society are bad,what kind of generation that we expect? because everything that they had done will afftect the whole society.

In my opinion, If the issue is true, the artist should be apologize in the public and make an statment to solve this problem, and the media should cooperate with public with didn't exaggerate the issue. Otherwise the information that available it's just a fake to make a public still on demand.