关于明星的隐私权的托福作文范文

　　Oh, no! Lindsay Lohan has flunked out of rehab again! And Paris Hilton swears that the cocaine the cops found in her purse wasn't hers. And Prince William's fiancée (the future Queen of England-gasp!) was seen leaving a pub late at night-WITHOUT THE PRINCE! There's not a day goes by that some media outlet (People magazine and the British tabloid The Sun, to name just two out of thousands) pays contributing paparazzi handsome fees to publish their photos of famous people looking unusually ugly. The Germans call it schadenfreude (delight in the misery of others). Any intelligent and tolerant person should call itTMI (Too Much Information).

　　In the first place, the reporting of such "news" is a horrible invasion of the subject's privacy. What does it matter to a moviegoer that Lindsay Lohan is a drug addict-she's an actress, for goodness' sake; she's not the President of the United States or the Premier of China. If she gets doped up and makes a bad film, who does that hurt? The rest of us should not be obsessed with what goes on in a celebrity's private life; rather, we should perhaps thank our lucky stars that complete strangers could care less about whether we are being unfaithful to our spouses or have gained or lost too much weight.

　　Secondly, the veracity of such "exposes" is almost always subject to suspicion. In 1981,actress Carol Burnett won a libel judgment against a US tabloid, the National Enquirer,after the paper said she had been seen drunk in a public restaurant. In 2009, Sharon Osbourne (TV personality and wife of rocker Ozzy Osbourne) won a lawsuit against The Sun, which said that she was "driving her frail husband to destruction" and trying to keep him working until he "dies on stage." Did British soccer star David Beckham really hook up with a hooker? Did singer/actor Justin Timberlake have an affair with a model while he was going steady with Cameron Diaz? It would seem that the mass media would prefer to take a chance and publish a lie, so long as they can sell more magazines or newspapers.

　　There does not seem to be much hope for a re-assessment and/or retraction of such salacious (and often slanderous) stories. As the saying goes, "Any publicity-good or bad-is still publicity." Even in the early 19th century, sales of Lord Byron's racy poem, "Don Juan," shot through the roof when readers learned of his many affairs. It is left up to discerning readers to ignore the merely sensational and focus on the truly meaningful.