January 29, 2005
The power of the citizen paparazzi
Celebrity spotting, a favourite pastime of many, is being vaulted to new levels of possibility, reports The Sydney Morning Herald, in an overview of cameraphones and reported incidents with regard to the new citizen paparazzi. Most stories have been posted in this column before, but it's a good recap.
"About 80 per cent of Australians own a mobile phone - expected to rise to a saturation point of 89 per cent by 2008 - and we are already starting to see the effects of people snapping others in places where cameras have previously been precluded by manners and convention.
Ordinary folk, already labelled in the US and Britain as "snapperazzi", with mobiles poised and a gossipy nose for news, are making good pocket money selling their shots of celebs to supermarket weeklies."
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