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Well, yes I know everyone hates the paparazzi and I'm sure lots of them are indeed dirtbags, but I still find myself opposing California's new "anti-paparazzi" law. The simple fact is if someone's in a public place they do not have a right to privacy, nor can one make a meaningful distinction between the celebrity hunters and so-called 'real' reporters, which the folks in the comments at Entertainment Weekly don't seem to understand. The law actually doesn't seem to have any purpose except to scare and intimidate since a photographer who breaks the law, either by tresspassing or cutting off someone's car, etc., can already be prosecuted because those things are, um, already illegal. And I really do hate to find myself on the same side as newspaper publishers (because they also oppose the law) but that's how is.

And I've known three paparazzos in my life and they were all nice, so there.