issue29

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ISSUE 29
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.
像演员，政治家和运动员这样的公众人物应该预料到大众会对他们的私生活感兴趣。当他们希望受人瞩目的时候就应该至少预期到会失去一些隐私。

正文：
I strongly agree with the assertion that public figures should expect people to be interested in their private lives. Nevertheless, I think it’s too arbitrary to say that once public figures seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy. Admittedly，everyone in the world has his/her own right to protect their privacy.

First of all, public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes are famous and widely known by people. As a result, people would be interested in the private lives of public figures. People may be curious about what the normal lives public figures led and the detail information about the public figures such as their habits and hobbies. One way to get the information they want is through media. It is the intense attention to the lives of public figures that raises a presumption in the collective mind of the viewing or reading public that our public figure’s lives are far more interesting than our own.

Secondly, another reason why I generally agree with the statement has to do with the forces that motivate the media. For the most part, the media consist of large corporations whose chief objective is to maximize shareholder profits. In pursuit of that objective, the media are simply giving the public that they demand a voyeuristic looking into the private lives of public figures. Freedom of reportage that incarnate the freedom of thinking and talking is the basic of democracy of country; Privacy of personality is the based right of citizen and it is the right that ensure personal’s dignity and protect his/her own life not to be disturbed. Both of them should be supported by the law.

On the other hand, intense public scrutiny of the personal lives of public figures can carry harmful consequences for the public figure as well as the society. Yet, until as a society we come to appreciate the potentially harmful effects of our preoccupation with the lives of public figures, they can expect to remain the cynosures of our attention. In retrospect the death of Princess Diana would call our attention to protect the individual’s privacy self-consciously. Remember the buskin and cherish the right of freedom and privacy we have.

In sum, although the fact that people become public figures makes publics be interested in their privacy lives, public figures have the right to enjoy their privacy if they want it. Everyone is born equally and nobody is eager to be deprived of freedom and privacy. When you are enjoying your freedom and privacy, you have a responsibility to esteem others’ freedom and privacy, no matter which kind of careers they pursuit.