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ORIGINAL: Brooksy84
Truth is though, the public loves gossip and candid photography enough to feed the demand. Labelling those that would publish photo's and stories like this as scum is like classing drug dealers as scum; without the demand they wouldn't survive (I accept there is a degree of variation in my example there). I guarantee you 90% or more of those who have said how disgraceful an invasion of privacy this was have all had a look at the photos themselves, or at least searched for them.
This is by no means a justification or an excuse for taking the photos, though. There isn't some sort of burgeoning market for "Kate Middleton hot naked pix" that this is feeding - these pictures, and that market, wouldn't exist without the pictures. The fact that we have a society so slavishly attached to living the celebrity dream vicariously through tabloid mags is awful and unpleasant and leads to some reprehensible breaches of privacy (like this one), but that doesn't mean that the people who feed can turn around, shrug, say "just doin' my job" and go back to it. They don't have to do it. The market isn't forcing them to at gunpoint.
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ORIGINAL: Brooksy84
I can't help but think that the Royals are about to undo a lot of the good PR they have built for themselves over the last couple of years. Though there will always be those who are anti-establishment, the Royal family has probably never been more popular than it is now, due in the majority to the efforts of William, Kate and Harry. Suddenly Royalty is modern, current and cool. But the reaction to the pictures from their camp strikes me as a fall back to the old days a little, taking legal action and such. Everyone has a right to privacy, agreed, but when you have the secure lifestyle and privilege that marrying into royalty brings, surely not being able to sunbathe topless to avoid situations such as this is a sacrafice worth making? Such a strong reaction, in my opinion, presents an air of being untouchable and above others, the main critiscism frequently thrown at the Royals in general. While at the moment they have a lot of support, I wonder how long it will last if their camp continue to go on about it and present themselves as such victims. For me, it would have been much better to present a simple statement saying that they find the pictures deplorable and request privacy in such matters in the future, then move on. I say this as someone neither particularly pro nor anti establishment, but if push came to shove I'd rather have them than not.
I can think of a number of situations where people, famous and otherwise, have taken legal action against people who have taken covert semi/nudes of them that they didn't authorise or know about. There was a NZ Broadcasting Standards Authority case where a breach of privacy was found in a television crew rustling around some girl's room, including her underwear drawer, as part of a prank show and aiming to screen that across the country. Just because someone is a Royal doesn't mean that they're not entitled to the same legal protections that other people - whether their sunbathing topless is a smart thing to do is another question entirely. The fact that them seeking the same kind of legal recourse we allow any citizen presents an air of 'untouchability' to you says more about your perception of them than it does about them.
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Not sure I agree with this. Most blokes (myself included, I won't lie) will just do a bit of google searching to find the pictures, whereas surely those buying the magazine will be women or possibly gay men? I can't imagine straight men are Closer or Chi magazine's key demographic.
Their demographic is whoever will buy the magazine. I doubt they're picky if it means a lot of money.
Also, a friend of mine on Twitter posted this, highlighting just how far the photographer had to go to get this picture (it's from the MailOnline as part of their hypocritical-as-all-hell crusade to make sure that they don't attract more negative publicity alongside the Leveson Inquiry, so take it with a grain of salt, but I'm prone to believing it) -
I mean that's pretty fucking ludicrous
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She's supposed to be 13! I'd want her to be very attractive though
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Stop being mean to Deviation
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