Are we entitled to other people's secrets?

[HK]

There's been a lot of fuss recently about super injunctions and the private things celebrities have tried to keep, well, private.

I've heard suggestions that the public has some sort of right to know about these things, which for the most part seem to be sexual in nature. Does anyone really agree with this? Personally, I think it's ridiculous to say that the public is somehow entitled to know things that have absolutely zero effect on someone's job performance. I'm sure it's very interesting for people to see famous people do 'bad things' but why do people feel like they actually have a right to know about an affair someone had, or what they like in the bedroom?

 

[ATKU2]

Depends on the way you look at it.

If it's something serious and they are like your BF/GF Husband/Wife, then yeah, but if it's someone you don't really know personally, then it doesn't matter.

 

[Darrell]

I do not feel the public is entitled to their secrets anymore than each respective citizen is entitled to their neighbors secrets.

 

[Panacea]

I definitely don't think it's the public right to know secrets about celebrities. Maybe with politics it is different, as they should be held to a higher standard (ugh see how well that works out), but athletes and entertainers shouldn't be torn to shreds because gossip is fun.

 

[JoeCool10]

It isn't our right to know anyone's secrets unless they share with us personally. I think some of the fault is on those celebrities who enjoy airing their dirty laundry for their fans. A lot of the media mongers do it on purpose, giving fans this idea that "well if this person can share their personal lives with the world, why can't this other person?". They don't respect the fact that those celebrities are normal people just like you or I, instead they see someone who is already in the spotlight and shouldn't be on the fence with their lives.

I guess.

 

[Panacea]

^I agree, a lot of stars are famous JUST for airing their dirty laundry, and that's what it's become. Hate that.

 

[Tuffdisc]

I think everyone is entitled to their privacy, whether it is football players we can't stand the team they play for. I think Ryan Giggs should know better than to sleep with that big brother contestant.

Though I can't Imogen what Ms. Thomas was thinking either, there are plenty of decent men like me lol

 

[Natasha]

I don't think that we particularly have a right to know about it, but I do think that when you're a celebrity you kind of agree to this type of exposure. Having said that, if a celebrity TRULY wants to be out of the limelight, they can be. Look at John Travolta and his wife...after their son's death, you didn't see them out until they had to go to court for the medics that tried to blackmail them. Princess Diana (sorry if I offend any of you people, but she did NOT become a saint when she died and you ALL know she was nuttier than bat shit) was one who used to complain about paparazzi but she also would call and give them heads ups about where she was going to be later. Do I think the paparazzi is overzealous??? ABSOLUTELY!!! But celebrities have the resources to retreat if they want to...most of them just don't want to.

 

[Springsteen]

I think with the culture we live in people are confusing the right to know with actually wanting to know. Because really it's none of our business if a footballer or a TV star is shagging someone else behind his wife's back, anymore so than if the guy across the street did the same. But because people are so nosy with the Heat magazine culture, it's like they think everyone wants to know.

 

[brieze]

I don't think it's our right, but the again, they're famous and rich because ordinary people pay to see them. So I see the point there.

 

[HK]

I think there's a difference between 'famous' people like big brother contestants, who are known for acting like idiots on TV, and people like John Travolta who are proper actors with a serious career, and the two seem to get confused.

Fine if you're the sort of person who basically signed up to lay their private life out there, but if your job happens to put you in the spotlight like it does with actors, footballers and singers, then it seems unfair to say 'well they should have expected it'.

 

[Tuffdisc]

I don't think it's our right, but the again, they're famous and rich because ordinary people pay to see them. So I see the point there.

I don't agree with snooping on the rich and famous, it is pointless. The media are just being hypocritical on saying that we need to know. I don't want to know, I don't care to know

 

[skyblue]

put it like this.....wheres the line between a footballer,a film star or a politician?,take one and you take them all....if your future prime minister,president or king was not trustworthy would you want to know?

 

[skyblue]

I don't agree with snooping on the rich and famous, it is pointless. The media are just being hypocritical on saying that we need to know. I don't want to know, I don't care to know

says someone who said he wanted to be a princess killing paparatzi

 

[porterjack]

no right whatsoever

the british tabloid press are scum

 

[Tuffdisc]

says someone who said he wanted to be a princess killing paparatzi

Still on about the paparazzi "killing" Princess Di? I don't think there would be any press who would take in their photos, I certainly wouldn't

 

[Natasha]

Still on about the paparazzi "killing" Princess Di? I don't think there would be any press who would take in their photos, I certainly wouldn't

I'm not trying to be funny or sarcastic...but I don't understand what you just said. "I don't think there would be any press who would take in their photos..."

 

[HK]

....if your future prime minister,president or king was not trustworthy would you want to know?

Does it make you untrustworthy if you're a guy who likes a girl using sex toys on him?

I can sort of see why people might think an affair is therefore worthwhile news because it looks bad on someone's character - though affairs are never black and white and there could be all kinds of circumstances - there are other secrets people seem to feel we 'need' to know about someone's sex life which have nothing to do with trust, but have a bit of shock factor.

 

[Tuffdisc]

I'm not trying to be funny or sarcastic...but I don't understand what you just said. "I don't think there would be any press who would take in their photos..."

I don't get what skyblue is saying about a person who wanted to 'kill' a princess, that certainly wasn't their intention even if they were the cause of the accident (i.e. why kill off a good source of income???)

 

[Natasha]

I don't get what skyblue is saying about a person who wanted to 'kill' a princess, that certainly wasn't their intention even if they were the cause of the accident (i.e. why kill off a good source of income???)

Okay, gotcha now. Even agree to some point.