As a person who has seen both sides of this, having been a buyer of tabloids in my time, but also worked for some high profile people I have to come to this opinion of the paparazzi...
Celebrities need the paps as much as the paps need the celebs. If an actor/singer/model etc is not working then people forget about them, so it doesn't hurt for a pic to be in a magazine occasionally.
I agree they shouldn't be hounded, like when paps hide in stars bushes outside their houses etc and right now I feel sorry for Jennifer Aniston right now, as there are a hundred camera's following her all the time.
But I think it's good for people, especially young impressionable people, to see celebrities doing 'normal' everyday things. For some reason in the western world celebrities are put on a pedal stool and aspired to and it's often not for good reasons or healthy.
So much pressure is put on teenagers particularly, to be wearing the right clothes, jewellery, to look perfect were do you think this starts from? So if the celebs are shown with scruffy hair and just down the shop picking up some milk, then it helps bring people back down to earth.
I think unless you have never brought a tabloid newspaper or magazine or watched e channel or mtv then you really can't criticize the paparazzi, at the end of the day they are doing a job, as are the celebs, but it's us the public who feed it all. If you think it's so awful that there are pictures of Shannen at McDonalds then don't buy the national enquirer, heat magazine, or any other type of media.... But my guess is you do, were all guilty of it, even Shannen buys them.
Its fine if you want to make a rule of no pap pictures, that is the board’s decision, I just don't agree with it. The pictures are out there and they will be posted on other forums and sites.
Anyway just wanted to post my opinion I'm sure the moderators will not agree with me, I wouldn't be surprised if my post is even edited....