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WRITING
11 You are going to write an essay about invasion of privacy by the press.
1. Use the essay plan below to help you.
2. On a piece of paper, write your essay plan.
3. Before you start, look at the language in the box below to help you.
4. Use the ideas taken from a radio phone-in programme where the following
questions were in the center of attention:
- Reporting of celebrity scandals in the press: should it be banned?
- Are scandals in the private lives of famous people any of out business?
A radio phone-in programme
Anna I think that the problem is that half of the stuff they print is just complete
rubbish. They’ll print anything to make a bit of money, and I think that half the time
they make it up. I don’t think they should be allowed to print a load of lies.
Mike A lot of people, especially young people, look up to pop stars and people
like that, so my feeling is that it’s important we know what they’re up to. These
people are role models for our children, so it’s right if we know what they are really
like.
Steve I can’t see how it is in the public interest to know about the private life of a
Hollywood film star or some princess or other. It may be that these people have
immoral lives but it’s even more immoral to write and read about it. I don’t go
along with this kind of thing at all.
Wendy I really like finding out about who’s going out with who, who’s getting
married and that kind of thing. I get ‘Hello’ every week and it really gives you all
the latest news and I really look forward to it. What’s wrong with that?
Andy If people want to read information like this, then the newspapers will print it.
I don’t think you can blame the newspapers. If people gave up buying these
papers, then you wouldn’t get all these shock-horror stories. It’s as simple as that.
Diane I think that it’s really important that the press has complete freedom. After
all, if you start saying ‘No, you can’t print this, you can’t print that’, it won’t be long
before our whole democratic society breaks down. I don’t want politicians deciding
what I can read.
Alice Well, these film stars say they’re not happy about it but they keep on giving
interviews all the time, so I can’t see how they can complain if sometimes the
papers print stories about them that are maybe a bit embarrassing. That’s just too
bad for them!
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