carpetworld::But like so many aspects of modern life, the red carpet industry away from oscar sunday is struggling to find its niche in a changing world marked by media fragmentation and oversaturation carpetworld

carpetworld::But like so many aspects of modern life, the red carpet industry away from oscar sunday is struggling to find its niche in a changing world marked by media fragmentation and oversaturation.
Once an iconic symbol, the carpet has lost several shades of its crimson hue in a town that now sees about four redcarpet events a night.
Now any mom and pop opening around here can and will have a red carpet.
A bigger issue is that the celebrity rules have changed, and these rules are being played out on the red carpet frontier.
Depending on how you look at it, celebrities either used to be treated with more respect and distance by the media, or their pr people held the then smaller media pool more accountable for their coverage.
Either way, the carpet was a nicer place as little as four years ago.
But in the days of paparazzi and entertainment blogger overrun, the red carpet provides less and less shelter.
They let people get away with more because the celebrities had more power.
The red carpet of today can come across as a minefield full of dreaded surprises for even the bestbehaved celebrity and booby traps from rogue journalist elements.
It is one area where even the most tightfisted publicist has to give up control.
And you shout back an answer.
Certain red carpets just go on forever.
Some of those photographers get so rowdy.
Pratt, who has pubished a book called how to be famous , only sees positives in the 2010 carpet.
More media means more words.
More photographers means more images.
And it will only get worse.
You can lose your whole career in one red carpet in 2011.
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