The point is Tim, these people invade peoples privacy for a living. It's sickening. I don't give a rat's right buttcheek what celebrities have to say about the papparazi, their job is morally wrong. People have a right to privacy, thats a constitutional law. To violate that for money is the same as me getting paid to gag people if they speak out against one person or another in a way that doesn't favour my employers.
Let me tell you something, I have seen a interview with a professional paparazzo. He says he will sit for 6 hours or more, outside a celebrities apartment or hotel room or house or whatever, just to get the pictures of them at their worst.
I know everyone has their ups and downs. I know I hate my hair in the morning because it looks feral etc. Celebrities are people too, not the godlike beautiful angelic creatures that they are made out to be. Why aren't they allowed the privacy that we get? Being in the public eye shouldn't include having to make sure you don't go on your balcony for a cigarette in the morning, because your afraid of paparazzi snapping a shot of you in your boxers. That's an obscure example but similar things happen all the time.
How would you like it if your face was all over the glamour magazines when you have 5am stubble and bags under your eyes? It's pathetic that people have made a buisness out of revealing peoples private lives.
Best example of the media being ridiculous: Tiger Woods. Around the world, thousands of people cheat and get cheated on by wives/girlfriends/husbands/boyfriends etc. This is one man who happens to be the worlds greatest golfer. It was the exact same thing as what happens around the world, but because he is famous every man woman and child has to know what happened, the exact details; how many women, what they looked like, 100 times over.
This is the media not directly related to paparazzi but the same princaple applies. They take pictures of people at their worst - normal people who just happen to be known because of their talents - and sell them for money, knowing full well that their shot will just serve to expose and humiliate these people.
I agree and disagree with Tim on the point that the editors are to blame, aswell. But editors don't wait outside people houses to get seedy photos of them, paparazzi do. If they don't have the skills to get into a firm, or go freelance then they shouldn't be photographers. It's as simple as that. You aren't a photographer because you have a camera and take pictures, everyone does that. You become a photographer because you have skill with your camera and take photos that are considered art. Britney spears smoking in her pajamas is not art, nuff said.
