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The newspapers are full of it aren’t they! Sticking their noses into people’s business in the search for a story. That’s what they do, they report the news. BUT is all this gossipy sensationalism really a story or is it intrusion into private business? I think it’s patronising that they expose human weak spots that everyone has, and then get on their high horses when reporting the story. What makes them think we want to read that rubbish anyway?
We’ve seen quite a lot of media intrusion recently, most famously was the Naomi Cambell vs The Mirror newspaper court case in which she wanted to claim damages and an apology for the article printed about her taking drugs and going to a drug clinic.
Then there was the Liz Hurley—And that man called Bing or something, where The Mirror even went as far as printing the phone number of his office to let irate busy bodies vent their fury at the alleged Casanova! In my mind that was a complete travesty and misuse of power by The Mirror; how dare they give phone numbers out so the ordinary British scum can shout at some innocent Americans. It was only two people’s business and no one else apart from close family should have any say in the matter.
Now there’s this Sven & Ulrika thing.
Being in the public eye (though I wouldn’t know) maybe you should expect to see this big interest in your private life. But are so many people really that sad and boring as to take much of an interest in this rubbish anyway? Haven’t people got better things to think about—like their own lives instead of sticking their noses into other people’s business?
Sven came to England to coach our national footy team. It’s a job, albeit a very high profile one, second only to the Prime Minister, but shouldn’t we let people’s private business be private? What Sven wants to do and whom he sees is completely up to him. To me, it seems like he has been totally overwhelmed by all this media hype and attention and it could even affect the way he goes about his life in the future, and I just hope the whole matter doesn’t affect our plans for the World Cup.
Many people love the media attention and spotlight, and use it to plug their latest single/album/film. People like Gerry Haliwell and Posh Spice would be absolutely nothing without tabloid newspapers printing every bloody minor showbiz story about their sad lives. But when it comes to personal matters, the papers should give people space; even attention grabbing shallow people like Gerry Haliwell deserve privacy if something bad has happened in their lives, but in reality, that wouldn’t be the case; the papers would be full of it.
Showbiz gossip columns are the worst. Everyday they are full of the same crap about various rich spoilt E-list celebrities going out and getting drunk or taking drugs—but I don’t want to hear that rubbish (maybe I should stop reading The Mirror!) Why do we want to see stupid reporters following rich idiots having fun when most people reading the paper are poor and miserable?
And I hate all those darn photographers crowding like vultures around a dead animal, swarming around trying to get the best pictures and sticking their lenses where they don’t belong, when they should be taking nice pictures of flowers, sunsets and waterfalls.
It’s in people’s nature to gossip, but when there are so many terrible and tragic things happening in the world today with innocent people victims in uncontrollable situations like war and famine, so why aren’t they on the front page? Why aren’t we paying more attention to the things that really matter in life instead of trivial business that should only concern the people involve and nobody else? Has media intrusion gone to far and should we let private business stay private, not splashing it over the front pages?
We’ve seen quite a lot of media intrusion recently, most famously was the Naomi Cambell vs The Mirror newspaper court case in which she wanted to claim damages and an apology for the article printed about her taking drugs and going to a drug clinic.
Then there was the Liz Hurley—And that man called Bing or something, where The Mirror even went as far as printing the phone number of his office to let irate busy bodies vent their fury at the alleged Casanova! In my mind that was a complete travesty and misuse of power by The Mirror; how dare they give phone numbers out so the ordinary British scum can shout at some innocent Americans. It was only two people’s business and no one else apart from close family should have any say in the matter.
Now there’s this Sven & Ulrika thing.
Being in the public eye (though I wouldn’t know) maybe you should expect to see this big interest in your private life. But are so many people really that sad and boring as to take much of an interest in this rubbish anyway? Haven’t people got better things to think about—like their own lives instead of sticking their noses into other people’s business?
Sven came to England to coach our national footy team. It’s a job, albeit a very high profile one, second only to the Prime Minister, but shouldn’t we let people’s private business be private? What Sven wants to do and whom he sees is completely up to him. To me, it seems like he has been totally overwhelmed by all this media hype and attention and it could even affect the way he goes about his life in the future, and I just hope the whole matter doesn’t affect our plans for the World Cup.
Many people love the media attention and spotlight, and use it to plug their latest single/album/film. People like Gerry Haliwell and Posh Spice would be absolutely nothing without tabloid newspapers printing every bloody minor showbiz story about their sad lives. But when it comes to personal matters, the papers should give people space; even attention grabbing shallow people like Gerry Haliwell deserve privacy if something bad has happened in their lives, but in reality, that wouldn’t be the case; the papers would be full of it.
Showbiz gossip columns are the worst. Everyday they are full of the same crap about various rich spoilt E-list celebrities going out and getting drunk or taking drugs—but I don’t want to hear that rubbish (maybe I should stop reading The Mirror!) Why do we want to see stupid reporters following rich idiots having fun when most people reading the paper are poor and miserable?
And I hate all those darn photographers crowding like vultures around a dead animal, swarming around trying to get the best pictures and sticking their lenses where they don’t belong, when they should be taking nice pictures of flowers, sunsets and waterfalls.
It’s in people’s nature to gossip, but when there are so many terrible and tragic things happening in the world today with innocent people victims in uncontrollable situations like war and famine, so why aren’t they on the front page? Why aren’t we paying more attention to the things that really matter in life instead of trivial business that should only concern the people involve and nobody else? Has media intrusion gone to far and should we let private business stay private, not splashing it over the front pages?
I guess it is a two sided thing. People like Naomi Cambell love the attention they get from the media, but when that attention is not concerning a favourable matter such as drug taking, they dislike the bad press they get.
I only read the sports pages in the Mail as the rest of it is prety bad as we all know (especially when they run an ill-researched topic about videogames), but you can't help but notice all that pointless celebrity gossip crap can you!!
Now the Daily Star on the other hand...there's what you read if you want intelligent topics;)
Now the Daily Star on the other hand...there's what you read if you want intelligent topics;)
The people that buy the papers and talk about them all the time.
That's the society we live now "Insta-Celeb" where everyone gets their 15 mins and clings to it.
Times were you used to have to have some sort of skill to be famous, or acheived something of note.
Not anymore.
"Big Brother", you have people famous for living in a house.
Celebrity Chefs/Driving Instructors/Gardeners/DIY/Interior decorators/whatever.
People think this stuff matters or is interesting - good on them, but you have to take the consequence of this stuff.
Personally I don't give a monkeys what a chef is doing or what some woman that takes her clothes off is up to. Football manager? Good for you, I don't care.
But you get magazines like Hello! and OK! that are nothing but voyeuristic glimpes into the lives of the rich and well insulated.
They sell by the millions, because people lap this crap up.
I don't know why that is. Unhappiness with their own lives? Bordedom with the role they have taken?
Who knows, but as long as people are interested in what some minor Z-grade celeb is up to, then we'll always have that rubbish in the paper.
Buy The Times or another broadsheet, none of that in there.
The Mail/The Sun etc aren't papers, they're magazines for nosy, dissatisfied people trying to obtain some measure of thrill from living out a life they couldn't possibly have through snapshot pics of those that do.
That's the society we live now "Insta-Celeb" where everyone gets their 15 mins and clings to it.
Times were you used to have to have some sort of skill to be famous, or acheived something of note.
Not anymore.
"Big Brother", you have people famous for living in a house.
Celebrity Chefs/Driving Instructors/Gardeners/DIY/Interior decorators/whatever.
People think this stuff matters or is interesting - good on them, but you have to take the consequence of this stuff.
Personally I don't give a monkeys what a chef is doing or what some woman that takes her clothes off is up to. Football manager? Good for you, I don't care.
But you get magazines like Hello! and OK! that are nothing but voyeuristic glimpes into the lives of the rich and well insulated.
They sell by the millions, because people lap this crap up.
I don't know why that is. Unhappiness with their own lives? Bordedom with the role they have taken?
Who knows, but as long as people are interested in what some minor Z-grade celeb is up to, then we'll always have that rubbish in the paper.
Buy The Times or another broadsheet, none of that in there.
The Mail/The Sun etc aren't papers, they're magazines for nosy, dissatisfied people trying to obtain some measure of thrill from living out a life they couldn't possibly have through snapshot pics of those that do.
And yet again, todays papers are full of it again, about 3 whole pages in the Mail!!
Then there's the latest TV magazine which has got loads of pictures of innocent celebrities just walking aroung town minding their own business going shopping....who wants to see that really??
Should photographers be spying on them and give us boring pictures of somebody leaving Sainsburys??WHO CARES IF CELEBRITIES GO TO SAINSBURYS!!
Then there's the latest TV magazine which has got loads of pictures of innocent celebrities just walking aroung town minding their own business going shopping....who wants to see that really??
Should photographers be spying on them and give us boring pictures of somebody leaving Sainsburys??WHO CARES IF CELEBRITIES GO TO SAINSBURYS!!
And Sven Goran whasshisface has a new record out too...
You can't have it both ways.
You either do your best to ignore paparazzi interest and don't play that game, or you do what Geri etc do and use them to further a career based on nothing more than appearing in papers.
You can't complain about "privacy" when you set up an "escape from it all" photo like Geri did when she "sought privacy in George Michael's hideaway home".
Quite honestly, the sorts of people that only exist through "exclusive" photos deserve everything they get.
Robbie Williams/Geri Halliwell/Liz Hurley and all the others exist for one purpose and one purpose only:
To entertain the masses.
I find the sorts of people that care about how England do in the World Cup are exactly the sorts of people that care about who he's sleeping with.
*shrugs*
They live their lives, I live mine and we're all happy.
You either do your best to ignore paparazzi interest and don't play that game, or you do what Geri etc do and use them to further a career based on nothing more than appearing in papers.
You can't complain about "privacy" when you set up an "escape from it all" photo like Geri did when she "sought privacy in George Michael's hideaway home".
Quite honestly, the sorts of people that only exist through "exclusive" photos deserve everything they get.
Robbie Williams/Geri Halliwell/Liz Hurley and all the others exist for one purpose and one purpose only:
To entertain the masses.
I find the sorts of people that care about how England do in the World Cup are exactly the sorts of people that care about who he's sleeping with.
*shrugs*
They live their lives, I live mine and we're all happy.
The newspapers are full of it aren’t they! Sticking their noses into people’s business in the search for a story. That’s what they do, they report the news. BUT is all this gossipy sensationalism really a story or is it intrusion into private business? I think it’s patronising that they expose human weak spots that everyone has, and then get on their high horses when reporting the story. What makes them think we want to read that rubbish anyway?
We’ve seen quite a lot of media intrusion recently, most famously was the Naomi Cambell vs The Mirror newspaper court case in which she wanted to claim damages and an apology for the article printed about her taking drugs and going to a drug clinic.
Then there was the Liz Hurley—And that man called Bing or something, where The Mirror even went as far as printing the phone number of his office to let irate busy bodies vent their fury at the alleged Casanova! In my mind that was a complete travesty and misuse of power by The Mirror; how dare they give phone numbers out so the ordinary British scum can shout at some innocent Americans. It was only two people’s business and no one else apart from close family should have any say in the matter.
Now there’s this Sven & Ulrika thing.
Being in the public eye (though I wouldn’t know) maybe you should expect to see this big interest in your private life. But are so many people really that sad and boring as to take much of an interest in this rubbish anyway? Haven’t people got better things to think about—like their own lives instead of sticking their noses into other people’s business?
Sven came to England to coach our national footy team. It’s a job, albeit a very high profile one, second only to the Prime Minister, but shouldn’t we let people’s private business be private? What Sven wants to do and whom he sees is completely up to him. To me, it seems like he has been totally overwhelmed by all this media hype and attention and it could even affect the way he goes about his life in the future, and I just hope the whole matter doesn’t affect our plans for the World Cup.
Many people love the media attention and spotlight, and use it to plug their latest single/album/film. People like Gerry Haliwell and Posh Spice would be absolutely nothing without tabloid newspapers printing every bloody minor showbiz story about their sad lives. But when it comes to personal matters, the papers should give people space; even attention grabbing shallow people like Gerry Haliwell deserve privacy if something bad has happened in their lives, but in reality, that wouldn’t be the case; the papers would be full of it.
Showbiz gossip columns are the worst. Everyday they are full of the same crap about various rich spoilt E-list celebrities going out and getting drunk or taking drugs—but I don’t want to hear that rubbish (maybe I should stop reading The Mirror!) Why do we want to see stupid reporters following rich idiots having fun when most people reading the paper are poor and miserable?
And I hate all those darn photographers crowding like vultures around a dead animal, swarming around trying to get the best pictures and sticking their lenses where they don’t belong, when they should be taking nice pictures of flowers, sunsets and waterfalls.
It’s in people’s nature to gossip, but when there are so many terrible and tragic things happening in the world today with innocent people victims in uncontrollable situations like war and famine, so why aren’t they on the front page? Why aren’t we paying more attention to the things that really matter in life instead of trivial business that should only concern the people involve and nobody else? Has media intrusion gone to far and should we let private business stay private, not splashing it over the front pages?
We’ve seen quite a lot of media intrusion recently, most famously was the Naomi Cambell vs The Mirror newspaper court case in which she wanted to claim damages and an apology for the article printed about her taking drugs and going to a drug clinic.
Then there was the Liz Hurley—And that man called Bing or something, where The Mirror even went as far as printing the phone number of his office to let irate busy bodies vent their fury at the alleged Casanova! In my mind that was a complete travesty and misuse of power by The Mirror; how dare they give phone numbers out so the ordinary British scum can shout at some innocent Americans. It was only two people’s business and no one else apart from close family should have any say in the matter.
Now there’s this Sven & Ulrika thing.
Being in the public eye (though I wouldn’t know) maybe you should expect to see this big interest in your private life. But are so many people really that sad and boring as to take much of an interest in this rubbish anyway? Haven’t people got better things to think about—like their own lives instead of sticking their noses into other people’s business?
Sven came to England to coach our national footy team. It’s a job, albeit a very high profile one, second only to the Prime Minister, but shouldn’t we let people’s private business be private? What Sven wants to do and whom he sees is completely up to him. To me, it seems like he has been totally overwhelmed by all this media hype and attention and it could even affect the way he goes about his life in the future, and I just hope the whole matter doesn’t affect our plans for the World Cup.
Many people love the media attention and spotlight, and use it to plug their latest single/album/film. People like Gerry Haliwell and Posh Spice would be absolutely nothing without tabloid newspapers printing every bloody minor showbiz story about their sad lives. But when it comes to personal matters, the papers should give people space; even attention grabbing shallow people like Gerry Haliwell deserve privacy if something bad has happened in their lives, but in reality, that wouldn’t be the case; the papers would be full of it.
Showbiz gossip columns are the worst. Everyday they are full of the same crap about various rich spoilt E-list celebrities going out and getting drunk or taking drugs—but I don’t want to hear that rubbish (maybe I should stop reading The Mirror!) Why do we want to see stupid reporters following rich idiots having fun when most people reading the paper are poor and miserable?
And I hate all those darn photographers crowding like vultures around a dead animal, swarming around trying to get the best pictures and sticking their lenses where they don’t belong, when they should be taking nice pictures of flowers, sunsets and waterfalls.
It’s in people’s nature to gossip, but when there are so many terrible and tragic things happening in the world today with innocent people victims in uncontrollable situations like war and famine, so why aren’t they on the front page? Why aren’t we paying more attention to the things that really matter in life instead of trivial business that should only concern the people involve and nobody else? Has media intrusion gone to far and should we let private business stay private, not splashing it over the front pages?