Publicity

What is it about publicity that gives authority?
Is it the fact that people get paid to go on tv/radio? Is that where the authority comes from? Whether it be acting or reporting news or playing a role in the media, people are getting paid to talk in front of a mic and read cue cards and ad lib about whatever that particular channel wants them to. Somehow our culture tells us there is a certain amount of authority that automatically comes with those roles. Otherwise what option do we have to conclude with?
Let us not forget the people that get paid to perform on tv/radio, yet do not act but perform in competition. Our professional athletes are raised on a pedestal as well.
We have been shown time and again that these roles are a let down. We have been shown that we obviously put too much 'authority' into these roles than they are fit for. Whether they tout such 'authority' or not, we have been shown that they cannot keep upright the ideals, principles or ethics that they have been given by us.
Another form of publicity is in written form. Some unethical politician or wannabe politician writes a book (or ghost writes a book), and suddenly they assume some authority on what they are writing, they hold weight in the public arena as long as their book gets in the hands of the public.
The only reason why I don't have this 'authority' is because I have the disadvantage of not being in this public arena. Do you ever wonder what you would do or say if you knew millions or at least thousands would at some time see it? What would you say to America? What do you find are your frustrations after listening to someone you thought represented your worldview, or you thought you looked up to but just didn't quite say what they should have? The only difference here is limelight, popularity and pedestal.
This chain of thought leads me to think of our forefathers. What made them special? No cameras around, no radio, yet the written word was ever present. The written word got their ideas out and made them popular. Next thing you know they hash out some things that are still affecting all Americans today. Yet people had to read. People had to invest time in what they wanted to find out about politics and news. The mix up today with news and entertainment in our current media spoon feeds our preset worldviews and we unconsciously entrench our minds in a perspective that could be completely false, is most likely misrepresented, and is spewed out of a mouth that has no intelligence, real authority on the subject and few if any principles to stand on.

What am I talking about? I just snapped out of it and realized I was just typing words...