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Paparazzi Photographers Should Have Legal Limitations
The mosquito swarm of photographers stalking celebrities, zooming in for indecent shots, racing after them in high speed car chases, needs some sort of legal limitation. I'm not saying ban them, I'm not in favor of suppressing their freedom of expression. But when they cause car crashes that's too much. When they zoom great distances for sexy shots in a place intended to be private it's too much. When they follow their children to grade schools it's too much. When they instigate verbally just to gode a camera worthy reaction it's too much.
 Grenache  11 Jul 2008 14:33
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Just look where the paprazzi got diana
 
 coolgirl  19 Oct 2008 09:09
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That is a good idea, but it is a free country. But sometimes they go to far and think of Princess Diana and the movie Paprazzi, it could happen i tell Because it did happen
 
 hb_26  27 Jul 2008 23:20
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Look what happened to Brittany Spears. Not that I'm supporting her or anything, but she had a nervous wreck because of them.
 
 Thhhh112  19 Jul 2008 02:55
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Yeah someone is bound to be hurt, but really a law, i don't know something needs to happen to make them back off
 
 jezhicka  15 Jul 2008 10:33
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I agree..
There should be a law to where it isn't permitted.
 
 lq04  15 Jul 2008 10:26
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If asked to stop the law should require the paparazzi to stop under penalty of a heavy fine and the removal and donation of what ever camera they are using. This will never happen because of the united states right of free speech.
 
 Smito  12 Jul 2008 17:02
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Paparazzi are essentially parasites, but I think that celebrities are often fair game. Let's be perfectly honest--celebrities desperately need the press in order to remain prominent and keep their name recognition, especially when they are not featured in new movies or television shows.

What I find is that prominent actors, models, entertainers and other television personalities are perfectly willing to seek out the press when it serves their personal needs, but then turn around and cry foul when the media expresses an interest in a story that is uncomfortable for them, or if their photo is taken when they do not look their best. Celebrities can't have it both ways. The media will serve as both a constructive and destructive element in their lives. They simply cannot expect photographers and journalists to appear when they snap their fingers, in order to listen to a press release, only to vanish when they are no longer useful.

I am sure that some of the most prominent Hollywood stars have already made their fortunes and feel that they may dispense with the media, having no real need for them anymore. But if one were to ask the majority of mediocre, third rate "stars" of British television programs and soaps--who sometimes have modest armies of teenage fans--to be honest about their relationship with journalists and photographers, they would likely admit their need for them. These television personalities need free promotion, especially when they are out of work. In a way, they are rather fortunate that the media is still interested in them and that even half decent newspapers will interview unemployed former soap actors, like Rupert Hill, and publish totally frivolous interviews about how the actor gets emotional and cries when he watches the Simpsons. Without the press and the paparazzi, most celebrities would just be plain old actors--unrecognized, unknown and a lot poorer.
 
 mackenzie  11 Jul 2008 15:31
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 Jeez, man, make your answer shorter.
by  Thhhh112
 19 Jul 2008 02:48
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They should all be shot in my opinion. Nosey ....
 
 Snipex  11 Jul 2008 14:53
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