Celebrities and the Papparazzi

Oh, I think celebrities should have some protection from the papparazzi. No, it is not fair to have someone constantly trying to invade your life. I don't know how that would look on paper as a law, but I would support such efforts. I think the papparazzi go to far.

A good topic. I don't think celebrities ask for it when becoming famous. I do think they should be prepared for the possibility that there is a bad side for being celebrities. "The First Amendment's free-speech guarantee prohibits awarding damages to public figures to compensate for emotional distress intentionally inflicted upon them" (From Wikipedia:Hustler Magazine v. Falwell) Just like everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

I think it comes with the territory. I don't know how some of them can handle it because having cameras watching every move you make would get on my nerves a lot, and forget about privacy. I personally can't stand the paparazzi, they will do ANYTHING extreme to get that big money making photo shot and they stock celebrities all the time and what a lot of people don't realize is that most people within the paparazzi are not even professional photographers and a good sum of them are just greedy people wanting to make a lot of money and so they think if they follow celebrities around and get a picture of them then they will get rich, which some of them do! Why can't people just be a regular fan and support the artist by seeing their movies,TV shows & etc and not care about what these celebrities do in their private life. I personally don't want to know or care to know what they do privately .

I believe that they can pick and choose the type of publicity they get. You can be a singer or you can be a star. You can be an actor or you can be a star. etc. In other words stardom is something that they can work hard to develop. This will insure a certain type of publicity. They even tip off the photographers in order to insure their popularity. A person who is an artist but does not necessarily want all the hype that goes with it, can manipulate things to get more privacy if they want to. I suppose that some are too young and/or not intelligent or savvy enough to know that.