How exciting it can be for those of us who have never experienced even the slightest bit of popularity or recognition to have our name in the paper for some minor thing. We will usually buy up several copies of the paper and carefully clip it out to frame or put in a scrapbook. It might be the only moment of fame that we ever have and we want to be able to go back and remember it fondly. Everyone wants to have a little recognition or fame in their life for something, but there are others who might tell you that there can definitely be too much of a good thing like recognition.

Our society idolizes our celebrities. Many of us will buy a magazine or newspaper simply because it has some captivating picture or headline about one of our favorite stars. Celebrity pictures and stories are one of the hottest selling commodities on the market today and you better believe that reporters and photographers take every opportunity they can to get these stories and pictures because they know how much money can be made by having and releasing them first.

Celebrities know the moment that something in their lives happens that it will be of public interest and there is going to be a flood of reporters and photographers following them around trying to get as many pictures and as much information about the issue as they can as quickly as they can. What is news today will be history tomorrow and time is of the essence. The honest reporters and photographers are usually not rejected by celebrities. When their personal privacy is respected, celebrities will usually cooperate with news people and give them as much information as they want revealed, but much of the paparazzi that seem to show them no respect for privacy can become a thorn in their side.

When we buy the magazines and tabloids newspapers that use unscrupulous tactics to obtain their stories and photographs, we are only helping these news people to become even more annoying to the celebrities we love. In recent years some celebrities have been caught losing their patience with the paparazzi because they can never make a move without having microphones of cameras shoved in their faces. Some celebrities have resorted to suing certain paparazzi members, not for the money, but because of the invasion of privacy.

If we want to continue to be able to get the latest true information about popular people, maybe we should be a little more discriminating about what news material we buy. By supporting those news sources that embellish the truth, just make it up, or touch up photos to make them look like something they are not, we are only helping to annoy celebrities even further. Why do we want to pay good money for trashy articles and pictures that probably are not even half true to begin with?