Media Bias in Paparazzi Events

[Truth_and_Power]

Spears bodyguard fights photographer (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/01/people.britneyspears.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)

Notice not a single action or word is attributed to the photographer. I am of the opinion that these people deserve a little privacy, and I'm sure if the photographer were not a media professional he would already be in jail for stalking or something like that.

[PatrickHenry]

I have to disagree here, TaP.

Britney Spears has made herself an object of interest by her own publicity campaigns. To now object to the paparrazi is disingenuous. And it is criminal to have your goons assault someone engaged in legal behavior that does not directly threaten physical harm to you.

Making death threats in public is also unwise and illegal. It's not the same as if a person without the means to so it threatens to kill. Spears can easily afford a hit. Her threat is credible and she needs a dose of judicial reality.

[Truth_and_Power]

Yeah I'm not going to disagree that her actions are unwise and possibly illegal. I will however argue that the photographer has probably repeatedly broken laws and provoked the assault. However, you won't see any of that in the press.

[PatrickHenry]

If the paparazzi break laws, then the celebrity "victims" need to present evidence to the prosecutors and have them charged. Not up the ante with violence and death threats.

They should be able to afford private dicks who will collect the proof that the photographers are lawbreakers. I bet they are cheaper than defense lawyers...

[Truth_and_Power]

If the paparazzi break laws, then the celebrity "victims" need to present evidence to the prosecutors and have them charged. Not up the ante with violence and death threats.

They should be able to afford private dicks who will collect the proof that the photographers are lawbreakers. I bet they are cheaper than defense lawyers...


I personally would hire someone to follow the photographer to his/her home and sneak into the yard and take picture of them and their children inside the house. I would have the photographer stay outside the paparazzi's house until he has to go to work and then spend all day following the paparazzi's wife around to see what she's up to that day.

[PatrickHenry]

I personally would hire someone to follow the photographer to his/her home and sneak into the yard and take picture of them and their children inside the house. I would have the photographer stay outside the paparazzi's house until he has to go to work and then spend all day following the paparazzi's wife around to see what she's up to that day.
Heh! Touché!

[Truth_and_Power]

I personally would hire someone to follow the photographer to his/her home and sneak into the yard and take picture of them and their children inside the house. I would have the photographer stay outside the paparazzi's house until he has to go to work and then spend all day following the paparazzi's wife around to see what she's up to that day.
Heh! Touché!


And then I'd be in court defending charges of harassment and implied threats (taking pictures).