Re: Death Pictures of Diana on InterNet!!!

Nobody writes:

> Made you look!

> "We have met the public, and he is _us_."

> UsMonger

Now that pictures of Princess Diana trapped in the wreckage have been
printed in European tabloids, it is only a matter of time before someone
scans them and posts them to alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless.

Clicking on such pictures, of course, is not the moral equivalent of
having personally run Princess Diana off the road, regardless of what your
neighborhood CPAC member would like you to believe.

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Mike Duvos <enoch@zipcon.net> writes:

> Now that pictures of Princess Diana trapped in the wreckage have been
> printed in European tabloids, it is only a matter of time before someone
> scans them and posts them to alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless.
>
> Clicking on such pictures, of course, is not the moral equivalent of
> having personally run Princess Diana off the road, regardless of what your
> neighborhood CPAC member would like you to believe.

This is off-topic, but... Why do people refer to the bastards who ran
Di's card off the road by some weird italian name?

They're JOURNALISTS.  Just like Declan here.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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Dr. Vulis writes:

> This is off-topic, but... Why do people refer to the bastards who ran
> Di's car off the road by some weird italian name?

In 1958, there was an Italian photographer named Tazio Secchiaroli who
discovered that newspapers would pay big money for pictures of "surprised" 
celebrities.  He is best known for a photograph of Egypt's King Farouk
overturning a restaurant table in frustration after being harrassed during
his meal.

When Federico Fellini made his 1960 film, "La Dolce Vita," where Marcello
Mastroianni played a frustrated gossip columnist, he created a
photographer sidekick for him based on Secchiaroli which he named
"Parparazzo" in the film. 

Since then, annoying photographers seeking to intrude upon celebrities and
provoke them into performing for the camera have been referred to as
"Paparazzi." 

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Mike Duvos wrote:
> 
> Dr. Vulis writes:
> 
> > This is off-topic, but... Why do people refer to the bastards who ran
> > Di's car off the road by some weird italian name?
> 
> In 1958, there was an Italian photographer named Tazio Secchiaroli who
> discovered that newspapers would pay big money for pictures of "surprised"
> celebrities.  He is best known for a photograph of Egypt's King Farouk
> overturning a restaurant table in frustration after being harrassed during
> his meal.
> 
> When Federico Fellini made his 1960 film, "La Dolce Vita," where Marcello
> Mastroianni played a frustrated gossip columnist, he created a
> photographer sidekick for him based on Secchiaroli which he named
> "Parparazzo" in the film.
> 
> Since then, annoying photographers seeking to intrude upon celebrities and
> provoke them into performing for the camera have been referred to as
> "Paparazzi."
> 
> --
>      Mike Duvos         $    PGP 2.6 Public Key available     $
>      enoch@zipcon.com   $    via Finger                       $
>          {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:

> This is off-topic, but... Why do people refer to the bastards who ran
> Di's card off the road by some weird italian name?
> 
> They're JOURNALISTS.  Just like Declan here.

Ahem.

 pa-pa-raz-zo \,paHp-e-'raHt-(,)soE\
 [It]
 (1968)
 :a free-lance photographer who aggressively pursues celebrities for the
 purpose of taking candid photographs 

I'm not freelance, nor a photographer, and certainly not someone who
pursues celebrities to take photos.

-Declan