Public figures should expect to lose some of their privacy

Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy.

If you are ambitious to participate in political activities and make yourself a successful statesman, if you are good at singing or performance and possess the potential to be a good singer or a movie or television star, or if you are a famous athlete, you should exercise great caution on your financial affairs, love story, marriage, and even the cultivation of your children, all aspects in your personal life, because to be aforementioned kinds of people makes you a public figure, and being a public figure means you get a conspicuous target painted on your back. As a public figure, you should expect that you will lose at least some of privacy, not because you are willing to do so, nor because you have the obligation to the society to do so, but only because you are public figure, and being a public figure, you have no method to prevent the curiosity of the public and the omnipresence of the journalists' exploration.

Many people wander why the masses are so interested in the private lives of those in high profile positions. From my point of view, there are several reasons for this. Some people collect and spread private information of public figures only for fun, they have too much spear time and no serious interests, they talk about such information to kill time, and gain admiration form those who have the same habit with them by showing how much they know about this. Another kind of people admire the life of high profile, wealthy, comfortable, behaving as the limelight, they want to know the detail of the celebrities' private lives to mime them and make themselves closer to the feeling of that kind of life. Still another kind of people envy the reputation and wealth of the celebrities, they need some scandals or other kind or negative information in their privacy to make themselves feel better. In fact, there are a variety of emotional desires in the depth of human mentality urging people to forage/ hunt for the information about the celebrities' privacy, each of which embodies one kind of human defects.

To cater such kind of appetite of the masses, the press……to search for all-to-detailed material about the private life of public figures. The ultimate purpose of the press to do so is to extend the reader population of there publications and television programs, so as to earn more money. Public figures may easily escape from the disturbance of single person of their fans or opponents, but they would never succeed to avoid/evade the detection/.exploration of the ubiquitous journalists fueled/motivated by money. Journalists serving for tabloid would report about your real estate changes, your travel life, your favorite music, attire, and even about which school you selected for you son to study in, all aspects of you private life, even more detail than what you and your family know, and the worse is they also concoct and spread rumors and scandals about celebrities.

Is all of these appropriate? When the daughter of ex-president who was still study in university was chased by the press, some one said that's immoral. Yes, it is immoral, but not illegal. The press possess the most powerful aegis, i.e. the first amendment of the constitution and the principles of free speech and the freedom of the press. And as showed in the case several years ago, the district court judge said as a public figure, you should provide more accurate proof to show the misrepresentative report about him or her is really out of malice in a libel sue, which make celebrities harder to win the such kind of lawsuits. Eventually, public figures are in a condition that have no means by which to protect themselves against the torture caused by the press.

Therefore, if you seek a public role you should decided to cede some of your privacy, you could not defeat the effort of the press to seek information about your private life, unless when most people in the society have come to be public figures and lost the interests in the celebrities. Before that occurs, those in high profile positions could do nothing but keep clean in there personal lives, anyway, this is the appropriate function of the press to cast a pressure making the celebrities drawback from wrongdoing.