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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Full Moon Oo Sagashite]]'', Mitsuki has to evade a reporter who could expose her secret.
* The main characters in the [[Boys Love]] series ''[[Haru wo Daiteita]]'' are both television and movie actors who constantly weather the [[Tabloid Melodrama]], and are chased by "freelance journalist" [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Urushizake]] on his motor scooter.
* [[Intrepid Reporter|Hajime]] [[Bumbling Dad|Shibata]]'s ex boss Inagaki in ''[[Hell Girl]]'' was one. He ends up sent to Hell by one of his victims, a young man whom he framed alongside his [[Disappeared Dad]].
* In ''[[Nana]]'', Nana and Ren's relationship is exposed, leading to a media frenzy. Yasu's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] comes when he decks one of them.
* in ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', Yoshino gets pursued down the street when she's linked with a pop singer.
* [[Blassreiter]] likes to portray ''all'' news media as swarming, sensationalist vultures whenever the Demoniacs (''especially'' Gerd) is involved. It gets to the point where it seems like the XAT's job is half dealing with the Demoniacs and half dealing with the seemingly omnipresent news choppers and vans.
* ''[[The Idolmaster (Animeanime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - A Paparazzi is hired by Kuroi to dig up dirt on the 765PRO Idols.
 
 
== [[Comics]] ==
* 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|Peter Parker]]. [[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.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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** [[Bilingual Bonus|It literally means "mosquito"]], which is rather apt...
* TV reporter Richard Thornburg in ''[[Film/Die Hard 1|Die Hard 1]]'' and ''2''.
* ''[[A Hard DaysDay's Night (Film)|A Hard Days Night]]'' deals with this during the press conference scene. At one point, a photographer fills a reel of film with George Harrison making faces into the camera.
* The main character of ''[[The Naked Truth (Filmfilm)|The Naked Truth]]''.
* In preparation for starring in and directing ''The Interview'' Steve Buscemi spent some time disguised as a papparazzi photographer.
** He also played a papparazzi photographer in "Delirious".
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Rita Skeeter from ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|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 (Literature)/The Truth|The Truth]]'' William De Worde and his flock are [[Intrepid Reporter|intrepid reporters.]] In the other 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 (Literature)|Rewind]]'' is portrayed like this, as they obsess over the seventeen Rewound children to the point of being [[Strawman Political|Strawmen Newcrews]]. 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]].
* Hallis Saper, a documentarian in ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'', is mentioned to have gotten her start in "sludgenews", [[Star Wars]]' equivalent. It did teach her some valuable lessons.
* ''[[In Death]]'': Just about every reporter, except for Nadine Furst, is this.
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== [[Music]] ==
* The music video for [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Leave Me Alone" (the song itself isn't actually about the media).
** Michael Jackson actually had made several songs reflecting on or inspired by his relationship with the media, such as "Scream", "D.S.", and "Stranger in Moscow" from his ''[[HI StoryHistory]]'' album.
*** "Privacy" from ''Invincible''
* [[Britney Spears]] - "Piece of Me"
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* Lindsay Lohan - "Rumors"
* "Dirty Laundry" predates popular use of the term, but is a screaming [[Take That]] to the callous, superficial, and sensationalistic hack journalism that keeps paparazzi in business.
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "TMZ" starts out as a song about how paparazzi harass celebrities, then halfway through changes to pointing out that a number of things that celebrities do in view of the press are ''really'' stupid.
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Our Monsters Are Different|tengu Aya]] of [[Touhou]] is often [[Flanderization|portrayed]] in [[Fanon]] as Paparazzi. It seems to extend to canon in Double Spoiler, where Reimu reveals she's developed several spellcards specifically to counter the camera.
* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series, you get cornered by a reporter in both games. In [[Mass Effect 1|the first one]], she asks you about your mission, but soon tries to make you look bad. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|You can punch her out.]] In [[Mass Effect 2|the second game]], she attacks your decisions at the end of the first game, [[Schrodinger's Question|no matter what they were]]. [[Talk to Thethe Fist|You can punch her out again]], but if you didn't the first time, [[Player Character|Shepard]] says, "[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|I should have done that the first time we met!]]"
** That or Shepard can deliver an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|speech calling her out]].
** She returns again in the third game. Renegades can punch her out again <ref>but be quick on the right trigger: she'll [[Genre Savvy|dodge]] the first time and knock ''you'' out if you mess up the second interrupt</ref>, while Paragons get [[Cooldown Hug|an interrupt]] [[Heartwarming Moments|of their own]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* After [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]] of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' became a famous model in "Green Isn't Your Color", these started hounding her wherever she went.
* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'': A paparazzi named Exposa once 'flashed' Ickis, snapping his picture and attempting to reveal the existance of monsters with a front-page headline.
 
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