"The news media should be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture and going to the extremes for sensational news. How far do you agree?"
Answer:I agree to a great extent that the news media should be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture and going to extremes for sensational news.
Paparazzi is an Italian term used to refer to photojournalists who specialize in candid photography of celebrities, politicians, and other prominent people. Nowadays, to obtain new, interesting information about something big, news medias resort to unhealthy paparazzi culture, they camp at the houses of celebrities, famous musicians, just to be able to earn a story to tell to the world. Have you ever thought that celebrities or even musicians for that matter would want a normal life? Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe if the paparazzi was less intrusive or concerned with competing with other news medias, they may actually be willing to share updates about their life? It is clear that resorting to such disturbing means is wrong. News media were the ones who started all this unlawful tactics and should be fully accounted for it.
Intruding to a person's conversations throught phone hacking is even worse. You may think, how in the world are doing that or why are they doing this? The simple reason is to attract more readers and make more money, blah blah blah... But the main fact is that intruding a person's privacy is wrong, no matter who you may be.
However, the news media do have reasons for displaying such intolerable actions. For example, to attract readers, stand out among other news medias,etc. I can understand, everyone must have money to survive, but the thing is that they do not and should not resort to such methods to attract readers or even stand out for that matter.
Kudos to you for pointing out several valid points. However, there are 2 major factors in which you could have included in your answer. Firstly, there is a factor that law has been a bystander with regards to unhealthy paparazzi culture. (Refer to Murdoch review). Also, it is apparent that if readers do not read or buy their newspapers, the newspaper would simply go out of business or go into publishing actual noteworthy news. Good job. :)
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