Keira Knightly v. Paris Hilton 

Pandering To The Press And Paparazzi

September 9. 2008

Keira Knightly

This is an informal follow up to the Judiciary Report article a year ago titled Keira Knightley v. Britney Spears. This week, actress Keira Knightly, switched her target, and took a subtle dig at wannabe lesbian thespian Paris Hilton.

Knightly believes the paparazzi are illogical and unbalanced in thinking they are helping celebrities’ careers by hounding them all the time. She reasoned if that were true, Paris Hilton would be the biggest box office star in the world. Ouch!

As I’ve stated before on this site, all publicity is not good publicity. One can run afoul of the public when the wrong type of stories make their way around the trades and tabloids. It can hurt your career and name.

Britney Spears is regularly tabloid fodder

Look at Britney Spears for example; it is going to be next to impossible for audiences to separate her turbulent private life, replete with terrible misdeeds, from her public persona. Much of her audience is depleted as a result.

Paris Hilton has done so many questionable things; many view her in a similarly unflattering light. Those that spend their time pandering to the press and paparazzi don’t have significant careers based in anything meaningful.

Paris bimboing it up with Britney Spears' then husband Kevin Federline

If you and your personal assistant spend your days emailing and faxing made up stories to the press for attention, like Madonna does, the public will grow tired of it – especially when the items are later revealed to be untrue.

After a while, audiences turn away and one is branded a media harlot and fraud that will do anything to stay in the limelight, even if it means degrading oneself or others.

"I am told by a lot of the paparazzi who follow me that they are helping my career but, by that logic, Paris Hilton should be the biggest box-office catch in the world and she isn't."

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