I was waiting in the doctor’s surgery a few days ago (for my wife’s anti-natal appointment with the midwife) and I randomly picked up a magazine. On closer inspection this turned out to be Hello magazine which I’m sure most people will have heard of (myself included). I have no interest in this kind of publication normally and I rarely read a newspaper or pay much attention to celebrity in the media.

The first thing I saw was a picture of Brad and Angelina (who I’ve heard of, I’m not completely living in a bubble) and the first words out of my mouth were, “Blimey! She looks rough!”. Now as a Life Coach, I’m supposed to be programmed not to make judgments about people. Obviously, in reality I do so as instinctively and sub-consciously as the next person, however I’m probably better at spotting these judgments than most people.

In this particular case, the next remarks I made were, “Blimey! I can’t believe I just said that!”. It led me into a very interesting conversation with my wife about whether or not there’s a psychological trick that the media play on us to draw us into making judgements about the things we see or read in their publications.

What do you think? Is there something going on here that draws us into judging the people we see in the media? Or is it more subtle, in that we experience people who read such publications and they tend to voice their judgments and sensationalise the stars and celebrities who they read about to us?

So my public apologies to Angelina (I’m sure she reads my blog!!!) and I look forward to your thoughts about my momentary judgmental slip!

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