Poor Britney

After watching the film Britney Spears: for the record, I really saw how horrible the media can be to celebrities and the drastic measures they go through to get a story or picture.  The poor girl was trying to get out of her car to get in a store, and the paparazzi mobbed her and she wasn’t even able to step into the store.  I think this comes down to ethics of the paparazzi.  Is it worth it to hound a celebrity to get a picture? I think that it just results in false depictions of celebrities.  Celebrity gossip magazines post embarrassing pictures of celebrities to sell magazines, but people don’t think what the paparazzi did to get the picture.  

Photographers stand on top of cars and use ladders to peer over walls into private property to get a picture, but yet the picture is still published. Granted people want to see a celebrity looking their worst, picking a wedgie, or with out of shape midsections and thighs, but there has to be a better way to go about it.  This all comes down to respecting people’s privacy.  If it is unethical for a reporter to listen through a closed door at a meeting, it is just unethical for a photographer to scale a wall to take a private picture.  If an editor wouldn’t allow a reporter to use the information gained from listening in, why would they use the picture? 

 

Is bombarding someone really going to result in an ethical picture?