The Real Price of a Picture

The paparazzi are a group of journalists who bombard celebrities and people of interest for their personal profit. The average media consumer has no clue what it’s like to be bombarded by questions from people they have never met, nor are they familiar with having ten or more photographers taking their picture as they just walk down the street. They tell us that privacy is forfeited with a certain level of stardom or trendiness. This happens because of the natural human desperation for drama, and it also speaks to the jealous culture that we live in. 

People care more about trying to be someone else (or be with that someone else) than they do about them being people. This gives the paparazzi their fuel to perform these obscene obstructions of privacy. This also creates a market that people or news stations are willing to pay for. People will watch celebrity drama, and people basically treat celebrity drama as live-action reality television. 

It will always be unfair to the people in the limelight because the paparazzi will always find them. They have insider information on where people will be, and it is very much like stalking. They also do these stories that follow these pictures that are completely taken out of context to create buzz or a headline. It is not very often that what is written in these magazines or stories or headlines is factual or checked. The number one goal is to sell, sell, sell.