Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:28 PM 9/2/97 -0700, you wrote: >While I think it is an awful tragedy that this young woman and two men >should die before their time, especially in such a violent and sudden >fashion, I have to agree with Alf that the treatment of this event as a >public spectacle and the reaction of Diana's fans against the paparazzi is >really quite hypocritical. If Diana was a victim of the paparazzi and >their editors who published photographs of her despite her unwillingness to >have them taken, then also she was a victim of her fans who eagerly snapped >them up. Well, I am no fan of Diana, and I don't blame the paparazzi alone for her death. As I posted earlier, there is blame enough to spread around here. Diana, her boyfriend, the driver, the paparazzi, the tabloid publishers, and the ghouls who buy their drivel -- all can have a piece of it. But, not being a professional photographer and not having any particular interest in celebrities, I had only a vague understanding of how out of control the paparazzi had gotten. IMO, it needs to be fixed -- either by a Sean Penn law, or possibly by building a 30-foot legal "wall" of protection around celebrities. It's been done to pro-lifers, why not to the paparazzi? Chuck - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Warman cwarman@wf.net (Wichita Falls, TX)