Blog Post 14

I thought Ashley’s topic was interesting because, although the paparazzi are usually viewed as a very negative group of people, but she made arguments in light of them, which I thought was a very interesting and different stance to take against a stance that is pretty traditional. I thought the part when she talked about Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone holding up posters and signs for a charity that they support was really surprising, and cool at the same time. That definitely is a way to create attention and publicity for something, and it’s something that I never would have thought of myself, as the paparazzi or as Garfield and Stone. I thought that point was a very good one to make. I also liked when she just made publicity a point in itself. If it weren’t for paparazzi, how would celebrities have the chance to make names for themselves. Without paparazzi, Miley Cyrus probably wouldn’t be the way she is, because no one would be there to document her crazy changes. I really liked this speech a lot and thought it was one of the more interesting twists of views on a topic.