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January 5, 2007

The prey of the paparazzi

The hysteria that is surrounding Kate Middleton today has resulted in various PR’s connected to the Palace asking for her to be taken out of the centre of this tornado. She has been pursued by avaricious photographers who are capturing her every move. Unless someone has actually been in the centre of something so news worthy, they can’t understand how horrific it is to be chased by so many photographers. Starlets crave it, but when it covers every part of their lives, it becomes a cancerous sore.

Good photographers who have been thrown out by newspapers in cost cutting exercises now find themselves trudging celebrity land, like bounty hunters in search of prey. They are on the street, eating what they kill. Certain papers will publicly claim that they allow privacy, but they’re all hungry for front page pictures. The Royal Family is a global brand and so there’s a global market for pictures. Even if the Uk papers say they will allow privacy, they may decide to publish pictures that have already been shown abroad. If every day people understood the pressures, perhaps they might take a stance on whether they would buy a paper that procured pictures in an underhand way. But I doubt it. We are all like those old women knitting by the guillotine.

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