Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Should The Press Be Banned From Hassling Celebrities?

By Matthew Paul


The world is split on 2 sides over the exposure of celebrities. The 1st camp asserts they covet limelight, work the press and are PR obsessed, so therefore photographers should be allowed to snap them anywhere, any place, any time. If they get caught doing something prurient so what. Ha! Ha! "we can have a giggle at these over privileged free loading sycophants.

The other opinion starts out the same as the last one, they work the press, love the PR, get tons of exposure, are over privileged, yada-yada-yada- however the press should not be permitted to snap them in intimate settings, nor should they be allowed to camp out on their door steps.

I must say the second view holds the littler minority. So are these conscientious celebs entitled to some liberty from the press? Well whether you believe movie stars like Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, or uber celebs like the Beckhams, Beyonce Knowles, J-Lo or Puff Father are marketing obsessed freaks, are their human rights being violated by papparazzi's following their each day moves?

It seems not just yet in America or Great Britain. These states have a unsatisfiable press and public requirement for gossip, frivolity and entertainment. The public delight at the turbulence, scandals and falls from grace that adorn their celebrity heroes. The courts of law aren't too heavy on the paps neither, unless there's a physical confrontation.

As there aren't any laws about being photographed in the public domain, celebs just have to tolerate it. Let's face it a lot of them adore it and does it not seem surprising that some celebs appear to be subject to the paps getting a tip off when they're entering town? I ponder who could have blown the whistle. The day after Twitter updates go flying, and the celebs seo selling managers seem to be the first folks on the case with the revelation that our celeb is doing some "charity" work or about to launch a new book.

But if you go back to the sad circumstances of Dodi Fayed and princess Diana's sad death in 1997, you can see the photographers and celebrity culture in it's most destructive form. After this exhausting event the French government brought in hard laws regarding celebs and movie stars being photographed against their wishes. Maybe that's why Johnny Depp prefers to spend almost all of his time off from the flick set in France.




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