MEANING OF PAPARAZZI

The comments below were left in the chatterbox today:

• anomynous>: As a paparazi you claim yourself, you shouldn't be posing in photos with the subject.
• <anomynous>: I mean look at the papers, the news man are not in the photos.
  
  I think many people have the idea that the term paparazzi refers to the reporters or the newsmen. Let me clarify what paparazzi means.
  
  PAPARAZZI
  Paparazzi is a plural term (paparazzo being the singular form) for photographers who take unstaged and/or candid photographs of celebrities. In short paparazzi means photographers. The settings vary widely for these photographs, any location from the red carpet to a private backyard is considered fair game. The paparazzi then sell their photographs to newspapers and magazines for a fee. They do not write the reports. In the context of my school, the people that populate it and are known to all can be considered as the celebrities.
  
  WHAT IS A BLOG
  Basically, a Blog (short for "Weblog") is an interactive, personalized Web journal for posting your views, art, rants, raves, reviews, pictures, music-anything that you want to share with the teaming masses (or a private group). You can make blog entries ("posts" or "updates") to your Weblog any time you want-like a what's new page or a journal-from news updates, to humor, insights, enrages, outrages, loves, hates, true and fictional stories.
  
  NEWSMAN
  1. a person employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau; reporter.
  2.a person who reports the news on radio or television.
  3.a person who sells or distributes newspapers, periodicals, etc.; newsdealer.
  
  
  In my school, I am the Media teacher and the one usually asked to take photographs of events to be used for reports, for the school magazine and also to be put in the school blog. We have an official website for the school but it is not maintained by me. In some ways a blog differs from the newspapers and magazines. I can put a lot of pictures for a single post but in papers it is usually a picture to an article.
  
  I do not see why I should not post pictures of myself posing with any student or teacher of the school as I am a member of the institution and also the creator of the blog, "STESMA forever". I actually feel that whoever wrote in to say that I should not post pictures of myself next to the subject(s) is trying to say that I do not know the meaning and concept of paparazzi and blogs. Perhaps checking the definitions in the sites I have provided below would help him/her understand the terminologies better. By the way, the spelling for someone who does not wish his or her identity be known is correctly spelt as ANONYMOUS and NOT anomynous.

See I am again posting a picture of, me, the paparrazo of my school in a blog which I am the blogger and not the reporter/journalist/columnist/feature writer of a newspaper or magazine. I would also like to draw attention to the fact that a few journalists who write articles about food and travel would also sometimes include a picture or two of themselves dining at a restaurant or a a location in the place they have visited. Similarly, they should try reading some magazines where the writers of the articles also post pictures of themselves with the celebrities they have interviewed.

References:
http://www.blogdrive.com/blog.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paparazzi
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/newsman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Blogger&i=38772,00.asp