are nearly text book actions of stalkers. Could an individual targeted by them use this to get them away?
Do you think it should be legal for the press to haras people to the extent that they do?
2007-03-06 19:52:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It's legal believe it or not... been challenged many times in the courts.
Two things make it legal and they win every time:
1. Their press credentials give them the right to follow (stalk) celebrities.
2. They only take photos of the celebrities that are open publicly. Did you know that a someone can take a picture of you in your house legally if you have the curtains open. The courts consider that legal and not an invasion of privacy. Also anything outside, even if you are on your own property, is considered public.
2007-03-07 11:42:59 · answer #1 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't right, but it isn't illegal. Plus the celebs really can't say too much as the price of fame IS a loss of privacy.
I think it's criminal the way the press pursues someone who is undergoing an extremely difficult time - such as someone widowed very young or the parents of a murdered child - but the only way to stop that is to stop buying the newspapers and magazines that market that stuff, and stop watching the news...
2007-03-07 04:41:16 · answer #2 · answered by JooniMoon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
paparazzi are a bunch of psycho crazy bastards. I ain't rich, but if I were expected to allow people to follow me and take as obscene and shocking pictures of me and my family as possible, I would literally kill one of them. Good thing I'm not famous...
2007-03-07 04:06:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I could care less. If you are rich and famous you are bought and sold. You become public property and nothing is promised. The rich have PaParazzi and the poor have street beggers and muggers. Take your pick.
2007-03-07 04:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Paparazzis can be charged of trespassing or intrusion into the privacy of persons if they violate the privacy of celebrities.
2007-03-07 04:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes i think they should be locked up just like you and I if we stalked someone.That doesn't make it right just because you have a camera in one hand, telescope lens in other...
2007-03-07 04:16:05 · answer #6 · answered by B. Gregory 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i'm not sure, but i think the paparazzi need to be sewed up the as$!
2007-03-07 03:56:30 · answer #7 · answered by impossiblemama 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
no....they target public figures...they cant be stalked by media types,only sicko sexual types....sorry...but there is a diff
2007-03-07 04:17:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋