Why Do Celebrities Should Be Off Limits To The Media

When it comes to the topic of the celebrities lives being off the media, most of us will readily agree that celebrities’ lives should be kept private. Where this agreement usually ends, however is on the question of if their lives should not be kept private and be off limits to the media. Whereas some are convinced that celebrities have the right of privacy and media should be off limits to the media, others maintain that the private lives of the celebrities should not be private because it gives jobs to the media on what was is going on in their lives and keeping the public entertained. As for me, I agree and disagree with the lives of celebrities should be off limits to the media because, as recent research has shown that there is ways for

The celebrity parents are always in constant worry about their children because of the media taking pictures of them and bombarding them with questions they don’t even know at all. Actor Dax Shepard wrote on the Huffington post article “Why Our Children Should Be Off Limits To the Media,” he talked about how the media have been constantly trying to take pictures of him and wife Kristen Bell’s daughter. He voiced his opinion on how tired he was that the media try to get pictures of his baby girl. He knows that the media is doing their job and that they are trying to make the public happy, but sometimes he just wants some privacy that the media wouldn’t go all crazy at all. Shepard established that, “Protecting her includes keep her life private until the moment she decides otherwise. I think she is entitled to do that. I think every minor is entitled to that” (Shepard 2). Shepard’s point is that the media shouldn’t be taking pictures of the celebrities’ children when their kids don’t even know what is going on at all. He wants celebrity parents to protect their children and try to keep them private until the child is old enough to make their decision if they want to have their picture taken by the media. Every child should be entitled to their own decisions if they want to be photographed at all, they didn’t sign up their child to be a famous

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 15 minutes of fame, and want the world to know them. This usually helps them get the opportunity for someone to notice them. Nordhaus talks about, “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 the media for the personal benefit at all because they should know if they do use the media for their own personal gain, then the artist should know that the media is going to jump on that chance and use them well for their own personal benefit as well. While may be true that celebrities do use the media for their own personal gain it does not necessarily follow that all celebrities use the media for their own personal gain because some celebrities don’t really care about the media and don’t even care what is going on at all. Although I agree with Nordhaus up to this point, I cannot accept his overriding assumption that celebrities use the media for their personal gain because not all celebrities would use the media for their own benefit. Sometimes they want to try to get the record straight and don’t want anyone to create anymore