... and are therefore are not entitled to the same level of privacy as ordinary individuals. The private lives of celebrities and public figures such as politicians, are therefore considered fair game for the media, which attempts to justify such "news" as being in the public interest. Therefore it would not be fair for such decisions to be left solely at the discretion of the media. The media categorises individuals in making decisions about how much of their private lives should be public knowledge. To present a clearer picture of how the media determines this, Reuss notes that there are three kinds of mass media decisions in relation to privacy: * Those that involve people who are voluntarily in the public eye, such as celebrities and politicians. * People who are or might be involuntarily public (We could use the Clinton/Lewinsky affair as an example as Lewinsky, an intern was involuntarily placed in the ...

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