Importance Of Private Lives Of Celebrities

When it comes to the topic of private lives of famous people, some of us will readily agree that the private lives of celebrities should be off limits to the media. Where this agreement usually ends, however, some would agree that the private lives of the famous people should not be off limits to the media. This argument doesn’t have a simple resolution because both arguments have valid points, and in my point of view I agree and disagree that the private lives of the celebrity should be off limits to the media because celebrities have the right to have their lives kept in private and not open it up to the world but then I disagree that the private lives of famous people should be on the media because they are famous for a reason and it keeps

For example, an ex-reality television star Heidi Montag from the popular reality television show called ‘The Hills’, she and her husband Spencer Pratt have supposedly called gossip magazines on what is going on with their life and supposedly their truth on what really happened between Montag and Montag’s ex best friend Laruen Conrad a famous fashion designer. A writer named Jamie E. Nordhaus wrote a book called Celebrities’ Right to Privacy: How Far Should the Paparazzi Be Allowed to go, Nordhaus talks about how celebrities use the media for ‘free publicity’, they always want to get their 15 minutes of fame and want the world to know who they are. Usually their ‘publicity stunt’ that they use can sometimes bring them to higher places or sometimes just leave them where they are now. Nordhaus establishes that, “An argument exists that if celebrities expect to use the press for their personal gain they should expect to be used by the press in return” (Nordhaus 307). In other words, Nordhaus believes that if the celebrity shouldn’t act dumb pretending that they don’t know that they are using the

They play dumb for their fans so they can always have their sympathy and go against the media for what they are doing. Celebrities know that they are being watched all the time by the media and they would do something so dumb to catch their attention and also make the fans talk about them and always trying to protect them from the media. Roy Greenslade a writer for the Guardian, he wrote an article “Surely Celebrities Have a Right to a Private Life, Don’t They”, Greenslade talks about how if a celebrity want their privacy from the media they shouldn’t go all over the media and trying to get their attention at all. They shouldn’t blame the media for negative reviews that they post up it isn’t their fault. Greenslade established that, “had proclaimed their virtue, and they were therefore not guilty of hypocrisy” (Greenslade 1). In other words Greenslade is saying that if celebrities really want privacy that they shouldn’t act guilty for what they did and just except the criticism they