Celebrity gossip: Has the media gone too far? – Part 17

The U.S. has become a nation obsessed. Obsessed with the lives of others that is, and the proof is in the pudding. We love drama, we always have, but recently it’s gone farther. The term “nosy neighbor” has been around for a while, but the media has taken it beyond our neighbors… They’ve taken it to celebrities.

Sure, some may say they deserve to be scrutinized, they put themselves out there, but they don’t. They chose a career, one that happens to reach more people then your average cashier, but does that mean that we get to invade their personal lives? No, it does not.

The average celebrity cannot leave there house without at least one camera following them. They can’t buy groceries, take their kids to the zoo, or even pump their gas in private. When the due, they’re in danger due to middle aged men climbing on rooftops to snap a few photos of them at their worst moments. It’s not right.

And it didn’t just start, no, in 1997, the paparazzi (stalkerazzi seems more fitting) chased Princess Diana of Whales to her tragic death in a Paris tunnel. It started back then and now, almost 11 years later, it’s getting worse.

Before her death in 2007 Anna Nicole Smith said that she felt like she was under house arrest in her Bahamian home. She barely left the house, and when she did, she never brought her baby. It’s horrible, a mother fearing the safety of her newborn baby whenever she leaves the house.

It’s not right, it never has been, and it never will be. It must end, but the real question is, how many people have to die before it does?