Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jul. 12, 2008
Winning the Surf and Turf War
Draconian legislation aimed at paparazzi would undermine free speech rights while doing little, if anything, to curb the excesses of the camera-wielding mobs, writes Peter Scheer. - Forum Column
By Peter Scheer
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You know summer is here when hordes of paparazzi descend, locust-like, on Southern California beaches, angering locals as they pursue money-shots of sun-tanning celebrities - while politicians, seeing an opportunity for self-promotion, promise new laws to tame the unruly photogs.
It has become a political rite of ...
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