Since the twentieth century, famous people have been receiving public and media attention more than ever. Not only their public images and behaviors have been reporting, commenting, praising or criticizing by mass media, their private lives also has been being under the spotlight. This brings the question that whether the media should respect the privacy of celebrities, not inspecting their after-work lives for whatever purpose. On this issue, my opinion is that the media has its right to express freely, and on some cases, it has the right to expose private lives of public figures to the public eye.
Technically, privacy is the entitled right to everyone; however, privacy is often indistinguishable from publicity when a person uses his or her personal life and private matters to attract attention and seek for influence and power. Some entertainers are of this kind. For example, a singer may begin a relationship with someone famous in order to gain media attention, and therefore make him or her easier to sell albums. Movie stars, together with other people in the show business, often wear luxurious and glamourous clothes in their off-stage lives to attract people such like fans, advertisers, producers and directors. Paris Hilton, a then-unknown heiress, is the archetype of using private matters to gain fame; in her case, they were sex tape and her family background as well as her lifestyle and personal stuff. These celebrities may not expect that their private lives will not be made public, especially for those who are making money from the news and pictures reported and taken by tabloids and paparazzi.
For politicians, they have the least privacy. Politicians and government officials are powerful people who make decisions and establish laws that affect every individual in the country and sometimes the world. Therefore, the public has the right to know what is going on in politicians' lives. However, some say that people should focus on the performance of a...