There is a Great Article in the NY Times about the Paparazzi Wars in LA. The article is called, Eye vs. Eye: Inside the Photo Wars By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ALLISON HOPE WEINER, July 17, 2005. go to www.nytimes.com and do a search for paparazzi to find the article.
The reporters talk to Frank Griffin of the Bauer & Griffin LA photo agency. Griffin loves to do interviews with anyone that will listen to him. He is British and an arrogant, nasty person and I think the article shows this. People wonder why there is so much trouble with the paparazzi in LA. I think it is because of people like Frank Griffin and the other agency owners who have put too many photographers on the streets of LA in order to get more and more photos.
The bottom line is these owners are greedy. The agency owners want to make as much money as they can. It is the American Way. This is funny because most of them are Europeans who have found gold in the United States. And, this gold brings out the greedy and nasty side of these people. They will claim they are just businessmen who are profiting from all the interest in celebrities. They hide behind the 1st Amendment when in fact that they are just snake oil salesman.
The Paparazzi business is such an overcrowded market that the photographers now fight each other for a photo. And, they have lost sight of right and wrong because they are trying to make a living and need to get paid by these agency owners. And, in order to get paid the photographers need to constantly bring material to the agencies. And, the photographers will get the photos by any means possible. If that includes speeding recklessly or running red lights and stop signs on the streets of LA, they do it to feed themselves and make the agency owners rich.
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