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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Hyraxx De Mofiti from ''[[Buck Godot]]'' probably counts. She's a tabloid journalist that at first keeps chasing after Buck in order to find answers for such questions as what colour of clothes does the resident [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] wears and whther or not the space station is haunted by Elvis. Later on she ends up helping Buck by digging up some information he needs, tho.
* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' is known for his bad press, so naturally there have been a few:
** [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] himself. [[Protagonist Centred Morality|Yes, he has been this.]] In his first meeting with Doctor Octopus he catches the man holding some hospital staff hostage. All fine and well...but the only reason Peter was ''at'' that hospital in the first place was that the police and the hospital had refused to let the press in to take photos of Octopus, who at the time was little more than the victim of a horrible lab accident. In other words, Peter broke into a hospital to secretly take pictures of an injured man. He's totally nonchalant about it too and made a remark along the lines of [[Completely Missing the Point|"I've never heard of a hospital keeping people ''out'']] with regards to his plan to sneak in.
** He once had to deal with a rather vile and self-admitted paparazzi (and the biggest slimeball you'd ever meet) named Nick Katzenburg, a [[Fat Slob]] with absolutely no morals, who gained a high position at the Daily Bugle because J. Jonah Jameson had been replaced by the Chameleon, making the Bugle's attacks against Spider-Man into outright slander. When the real Jonah returned, Nick's claws were clipped a little, due to Jonah having some morals as a newsman, and then severely grounded when Thomas Fireheart became the owner in a hostile takeover, turning the Bugle's coverage towards him positive in order to repay a debt he felt he owed (which, sadly, was just as biased, only in reverse). Nick's slanderous ways finally came to a head when he took incriminating pictures of [[The Don| the Rose]] and published them with Peter Parker's name to protect himself; once the truth came out, he was the target of both the underworld and the police, and an attempt on his life led to a heart attack and his eventual death from lung cancer.
** Eddie Brock (as in, [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]]) became this after his reputation as a respectible reporter was ruined, a phase of his life that drove him to near suicide, making him an ideal host for the alien symbiote. In fact, he was inspired to call himself Venom due to the vile drivel he had been reduced to writing.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* The rare paparazzi hero: Leon Bernstein (played by [[Joe Pesci]]) in ''[[The Public Eye]]''. Based on the real life photog Weegee.
* In ''[[That Old Feeling]]'', [[Bette Midler]] plays a movie star who is frequently chased by a certain paparazzo.
* The film ''[[Paparazzi (film)|Paparazzi]]'' is about an actor whose life is almost destroyed by evil paps who cause a car accident that land the actor's 9 -year -old son in the hospital in intensive care, break into his home, harass and terrify the rest of his family, etc. He then spends the rest of the movie murdering all the paparazzi that wronged him.
* ''[[And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird]]'': After reporter Alice hears about Josh and Max's secret robot, she pursues the story to the point of breaking and entering and airing footage obtained from shooting through house windows.
 
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* Rita Skeeter from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. Though technically she's not a photographer herself, the rest of her characterization fits and she generally strings one (named "Bozo") along with her.
* ''Paparazzi'', obviously.
* In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'' William De Worde and his flock are [[Intrepid Reporter|intrepid reporters.]]s. In thelater other''[[Discworld]]'' books, they are often portrayed as this to the main characters.
* James Herbert's novel ''Creed'' is about a paparazzo stumbling upon a satanic cult.
* Nearly all the media in ''[[Rewind (Terry England novel)|Rewind]]'' is portrayed like this, as they obsess over the seventeen Rewound children to the point of being [[Strawman Political|Strawmen news crews]]. Starts with ABC and NBC reporters [[Cluster F-Bomb|cussing each other out]] while fighting for a good position to film from, and just [[It Got Worse|goes downhill from there]].
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* Fili Houtemann got two of these to [[Honey Trap|photograph her cavorting naked]] with Daniel Ducruet, the then-husband of Stephanie Casiraghi.
* A paparazzi once decided it would be a brilliant idea to sneak into [[Bruce Lee]]'s backyard to try and get shots of him.[[Too Dumb to Live|Unfortunately, his kids were in the yard at the time, and he terrified them]], a ''very'' angry Lee [[Papa Wolf|kicked the man with such force, it knocked him out instantly and may have killed him if Lee's foot was a bit more to the side.]]
* [[Emma Watson]] said in an interview that she encountered paparazzi lying on the ground to take pictures up her skirt on her eighteenth birthday. Apparently it was legal to do that to an adult but not a minor in 2008.<ref>A UK law has since been introduced to ban "upskirt" pictures at any age.</ref>
 
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