| How exciting it can be for those of us who have | | | | honest reporters and photographers are usually not |
| never experienced even the slightest bit of popularity | | | | rejected by celebrities. When their personal privacy is |
| or recognition to have our name in the paper for some | | | | respected, celebrities will usually cooperate with news |
| minor thing. We will usually buy up several copies of | | | | people and give them as much information as they |
| the paper and carefully clip it out to frame or put in a | | | | want revealed, but much of the paparazzi that seem |
| scrapbook. It might be the only moment of fame that | | | | to show them no respect for privacy can become a |
| we ever have and we want to be able to go back | | | | thorn in their side. |
| and remember it fondly. Everyone wants to have a | | | | When we buy the magazines and tabloids |
| little recognition or fame in their life for something, but | | | | newspapers that use unscrupulous tactics to obtain |
| there are others who might tell you that there can | | | | their stories and photographs, we are only helping |
| definitely be too much of a good thing like recognition. | | | | these news people to become even more annoying to |
| Our society idolizes our celebrities. Many of us will buy | | | | the celebrities we love. In recent years some |
| a magazine or newspaper simply because it has | | | | celebrities have been caught losing their patience with |
| some captivating picture or headline about one of our | | | | the paparazzi because they can never make a move |
| favorite stars. Celebrity pictures and stories are one of | | | | without having microphones of cameras shoved in |
| the hottest selling commodities on the market today | | | | their faces. Some celebrities have resorted to suing |
| and you better believe that reporters and | | | | certain paparazzi members, not for the money, but |
| photographers take every opportunity they can to get | | | | because of the invasion of privacy. |
| these stories and pictures because they know how | | | | If we want to continue to be able to get the latest true |
| much money can be made by having and releasing | | | | information about popular people, maybe we should be |
| them first. | | | | a little more discriminating about what news material |
| Celebrities know the moment that something in their | | | | we buy. By supporting those news sources that |
| lives happens that it will be of public interest and there | | | | embellish the truth, just make it up, or touch up photos |
| is going to be a flood of reporters and photographers | | | | to make them look like something they are not, we are |
| following them around trying to get as many pictures | | | | only helping to annoy celebrities even further. Why do |
| and as much information about the issue as they can | | | | we want to pay good money for trashy articles and |
| as quickly as they can. What is news today will be | | | | pictures that probably are not even half true to begin |
| history tomorrow and time is of the essence. The | | | | with? |