Our society has become so fixated in watching and reading about others, that sometimes we forget that celebrities should have some privacy of their own. Stories in the headlines can range from what a certain celebrity orders from a fast food restaurant to information concerning a divorce settlement between a couple. Every solitary move a famous individual makes in his or her life is documented in a photograph, editorial, or headline on a TV show dedicated to exposing their life. If famous celebrities cannot receive any amount of privacy, why should individuals like ourselves be guaranteed that our personal lives are not exposed to the world? Should not all human beings be able to keep certain aspects of their life personal? Journalists and photographers should realize that celebrities are human beings that would like to keep certain parts of their lives to themselves, and not have their lives consumed with photographs and editorials devoted to exposing all details of their life, good or bad.Although numerous individuals think that being famous means being in the public eye on a daily basis, people do not understand how far some photographers and journalists will go to get a juicy story. Being famous does come with life altering changes that celebrities have to learn to accept no matter how drastic. Celebrities start to become familiar with people watching their every move from the minute they wake up to the time they will go back to bed. Journalists and photographers will literally stalk famous individuals down to simply get a juicy story or photograph that they can write about in the next editorial. Photographers seem to be the worst people when it comes to stalking celebrities with their cameras.
Simply going out to run errands can turn into the biggest nightmare for celebrities. As a result of being bombarded with cameras, the actor was forced to hide his face with his jacket and hands blocking the photographers from taking pictures of him. How would anyone feel if when going to work they were surrounded with cameras and light-bulb flashes constantly?
The media is certainly abusing the rights they are given by exposing details of famous individual’s lives. Anything from celebrity scandals and breakups to private matters like divorce are always shown on TV shows featured on E News, which show the latest and most up to date stories. These shows will provide viewers with hard evidence including paper documents and photographs that depict a certain story. Stories dealing with breakups, for instance, the popular divorce between Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston after seven years of marriage, are sold to specific magazines for a large amount of moneyTabloids are probably most famous for exposing the dirty secrets and scandals of celebrities, true or not.
Why should celebrities' be the target of tabloids? Why not expose regular individual's secrets to the world instead?
Many photographers will often stalk celebrities down on a daily basis by hiding out somewhere nearby and keeping a very close watch to their every move. In some extreme cases, some photographers will be so aggressive with celebrities that it often results in verbal abuse, car accidents, and ultimately death.
Resource:
http://sarakshaikh.blogspot.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Entertainment/story?id=528898
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4697388
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