Blog Prompt #6 - RM Phone-hacking SCANDAL

 "The news media should be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture and going to the extremes for sensational news. How far do you agree?"

Yes, I only agree to this statement to a small extent, the news media are not the ones to take the entire blame. Look at the modern world today. The readers have a part of this blame. The general readers (not the entire public) wants their gossips and news everyday. They demand it and the newspapers give it to them. However, the Internet has been much more important and it is used to spread these gossips around to their social circles. This will affect the news firms. Thus, the news firms have to resort to the most ultimate methods. They have to do much more than interviewing the      person, they have to deploy spies and trackers to follow, stalk and report back to the news firms. The celebrities are thus affected and will try to avoid these paparazzi and spies, but it will definitely inflict harm on themselves. For example, the Princess of Wales, Diana, was killed in a car crash due to the pursuing paparazzi. She had to avoid them and entered the car which resulted in this fatal accident. Thus, the readers could tone down and give the celebrities some breathing space.

If the paparazzi and readers are following this particular celebrity, don't they want to care for them? If so, why not abolish such extreme methods? It will definitely cause harm sooner or later, and it's about time the readers should really sit down and re-think their tactics.

The celebrities sometimes have themselves to blame too. Some of them just want more exposure to the public and aspire to become a star overnight. All they have to do is to post a rumour anonymously somewhere and it will instantly result in a overwhelming number of fans and paparazzi following them. Simple yet stupid.

Thus, the readers and paparazzi have themselves to blame, not entirely the news media itself for this unhealthy culture. If YOU are one of them, then please, stop these nonsense now.

Seriously.