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http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/28/11913327-reports-justin-bieber-accused-of-battery-by-photographer?lite

Stand back, he's turning green!

Someone should shoot the squeaky male genitalierd little feth.

I don't particularly care for his music (then again, it is not exactly aimed at me buying it) but he has every right to make and sell it and yes, even have it played on air and talked about.

Just because you don't like something/someone doesn't mean you can just go around calling for their death/torture/etc... that's just being a tool.

At first I thought he was stupid, his entire career is being a celebrity and having you photos taken is part and parcel of that however after reading the article I think it may just be a member of the paparazzi trying to get some fame/money by kicking up a fuss.

If he is going to be in the public eye he better get used to photographers...

I never understand the celebrity whinge fest about being 'papped', they don't have terribly challenging lives and being photographed isn't exactly a hardship.

Medium of Death wrote:If he is going to be in the public eye he better get used to photographers...

I never understand the celebrity whinge fest about being 'papped', they don't have terribly challenging lives and being photographed isn't exactly a hardship.

Whilst I would agree that it is part of the life you sign up for (though I wish the "celeb mag culture" would vanish into the dark hole it crawled out of), can you imagine being mobbed everywhere you go, people shoving cameras in your face, getting in your way etc?

Especially if you are then getting trash written about you all over the place. And I can entirely see some of these people pushing in order to get a reaction so they can sell more pictures/print/etc.

SilverMK2 wrote:

Medium of Death wrote:If he is going to be in the public eye he better get used to photographers...

I never understand the celebrity whinge fest about being 'papped', they don't have terribly challenging lives and being photographed isn't exactly a hardship.

Whilst I would agree that it is part of the life you sign up for (though I wish the "celeb mag culture" would vanish into the dark hole it crawled out of), can you imagine being mobbed everywhere you go, people shoving cameras in your face, getting in your way etc?

Especially if you are then getting trash written about you all over the place. And I can entirely see some of these people pushing in order to get a reaction so they can sell more pictures/print/etc.

True, but on the other hand, celebrities also go out of their way to be photographed.

Relapse wrote:True, but on the other hand, celebrities also go out of their way to be photographed.

I would argue that they don't go out of their way to be photographed all the time (in general, I am sure there are some who are quite happy to be pictured doing pretty much anything to anyone anywhere )

SilverMK2 wrote:
Especially if you are then getting trash written about you all over the place. And I can entirely see some of these people pushing in order to get a reaction so they can sell more pictures/print/etc.

Tebow handles it quite well, why can't he?

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:
Especially if you are then getting trash written about you all over the place. And I can entirely see some of these people pushing in order to get a reaction so they can sell more pictures/print/etc.

Tebow handles it quite well, why can't he?

Well, they are not the same person with the same attitudes, temprement, experience, etc for a start... (I have no idea who or what Tebow is, it is just an assumption on my part that people are generally different from one another ).

SilverMK2 wrote:Just because you don't like something/someone doesn't mean you can just go around calling for their death/torture/etc... that's just being a tool.

[sarcasm] But if you can't say hateful things on the internet from the safety of anonymity, how can one seem cool? [/sarcasm]

Anyway, on topic, I kind of like this gangsta version of Bieber. He's allegedly knocking chicks up and now apparently starting gak with the paparazzi. Shine on you crazy diamond.

Monster Rain wrote:
Anyway, on topic, I kind of like this gangsta version of Bieber. He's allegedly knocking chicks up and now apparently starting gak with the paparazzi. Shine on you crazy diamond.

there goes my faith in hmainty and the idea that Syd meant anything to an non-Uk person

I read in a magazine that he thinks his fans are loyal and will never leave him.

I feel sorry for the guy. I truely do.

I know, I hate how the paparazzi treats us famous people. I couldn't even go out cross dressing last week without getting called out for it and having my picture snapped up. Now my wife is leaving me and Lord Xenu has no answers for me. Stupid paparazzi, they ruin everything. Maybe Father Cruise's special sessions will help me feel better.

Monster Rain wrote:Anyway, on topic, I kind of like this gangsta version of Bieber. He's allegedly knocking chicks up and now apparently starting gak with the paparazzi. Shine on you crazy diamond.

He must have read the Sean Penn Guide to Winning Friends and Influencing People.

Corpsesarefun wrote: I think it may just be a member of the paparazzi trying to get some fame/money by kicking up a fuss.

That, to me, is the most depressing part of this story. This poor bugger is actually coming out and telling the world that he got roughed up by Beiber.

Medium of Death wrote:If he is going to be in the public eye he better get used to photographers...

I never understand the celebrity whinge fest about being 'papped', they don't have terribly challenging lives and being photographed isn't exactly a hardship.

That sounds so wrong...

I can just imagine now "Mummy! A scary old man papped me!"

Not that I can think of a more deserving person, but...

Another step in Justin's evolution into badass supreme...
slappin' Mike Tyson up the side of his head.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/t/slideshow/justin-bieber-tyson-10126698

I can understand why celebrities complain about the paparazzi - they behave like animals. The number of paps who basically shove their cameras up women's skirts is grotesque - that's what led to Russell Brand attacking one a few years ago, when a pap did it to his wife. If I'd been in his position, that fething vermin would have had a carer to feed him for the rest of life - it's sexual assault, pure and simple, and it shocks me that so many seem to get away with it.

Yes, being photographed is no great chore (though I personally don't like it much, especially posed shots), but that's actually a small part of what paparazzi do - their job seems mostly to consist of baiting their targets until they get a good reaction shot. They're vile.