February 10, 2008
Paparazzi deflating myth of celebrity
The Paparazzi have gone overboard. An interesting article by Steve Penhollow on the paparazzi's antagonistic coverage of celebrities for The Journal Gazette.
"... According to The Associated Press, paparazzi greeting an ambulance carrying Britney Spears to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in early January banged on the doors of the vehicle.
“They were just doing their job,” some bloggers wrote afterward.
I know it has become fashionable to find something admirable in every occupation or vocation, from being a stripper to being a mortgage rescue scammer. But I think it’s safe to say that if your job involves banging on the doors of an emergency vehicle carrying a sick person to the hospital, you have squandered whatever potential was gifted to you at birth.
If these celebrity photographers are in fact “just doing their job,” how did that become their job?"
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