Alison Mau is MAD. She HATES paparazzi and being photographed and being in the public eye. Hang on a minute? Isn’t Mau a media personality, a reporter/presenter whose job is to present the same kind of stories about people just like her. That alone makes her out and out outrage hard to sympathise with.
Okay so somebody took a couple of photos of her kids. Tough call. But if you’re going to play “Who Wants to Be a Celebrity” it just goes with the territory. From Di on down, it’s not just you in the papers … it’s everybody you know. Now if her kids were mad, that would be a different story. They could always write to Michael Laws.
Strange thing is this. Mau (and fellow media fugitive Mike Hosking) must have reported hundreds if not thousands of comments or stories on other “personalities”. Does anyone recall either of them ever speaking out against paparazzi before they themselves were personally targeted? Nope? Me either.
The real issue is clearly not to do with paparazzi, privacy or the rights of children. The real issue here is that New Zealand has long suffered from a celebrity drought. When some guy in a Corolla spends Valentine’s Day taking pictures of news-readers and weather presenters you know, you can only be in New Zealand.
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