Thursday 23 August 2012

The Right to Anonymity

What is it with tabloid newspapers and magazines that frustrates us? Is it their insane determination to publish a story that they know is not true but everyone will believe? Is it how they insist on getting the pictures that everyone has been waiting for? Or is it the amount of pain and hurt their stories will cause to the people they are about?

One of my favourite actors, Robert Pattinson recently said "tabloids make people stupid". Is he right? Do they lure the public into a false sense of amazement at the supposed actions of other people or are they telling others what they should know? Fair enough celebrities have practically signed away their right to anonymity when they decided to become famous but do they deserve to be hounded by paparazzi? Or are paparrazi only doing their job to make a living? Celebrities are still humans and they do still deserve some sort of privacy, after all, no one wants the world to know every little detail from when they go to bed to what they had for breakfast.

Let me know what you think about this in the comments.

Thanks x

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