The Private Lives Of Celebrities Be Off Limits To The Media Essay

When it comes to the topic of the 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. 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 a 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 the fans entertained.

They need to know that whatever they do write can either tear or bring up the celebrity they are talking about. Not many people know that it is hard for the celebrity to be constantly watched by the media and always constantly getting bullied by people that don’t know them at all. Celebrities, have feelings just like the rest of us, they aren’t made of stone at all. A blogger named Haider Ali, he wrote a blog called, “Should the Private Life of Celebrities be off limits,” he talks about how celebrities work so hard to get their name known and when they work hard that their lives would also be well known to the public and you can see how hard celebrities try to disguise themselves trying not to get known by the media. He quotes Fred Allen, “A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized” (Ali 1). In other words Allen is trying to say is that even if a celebrity works so hard for their name to get well known for their whole lives become the topic on every gossip magazine and social media, but they try to disguise themselves in hats and sunglasses they try to avoid being noticed by the media so they won’t be the talk on any gossip magazines the next day. On the one hand, I agree with Ali that celebrities work so hard to get to where they are now, but they have to wear

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 lives and supposedly their truth on what really happened between Montag and Montag’s ex best friend Lauren 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