Why no 6am bang on the door from plod with tabloid photographers tipped off to catch him in his Y fronts?

"I began to read about these people," Mr. Franklin said of tabloid photographers.

"We met Helene in a hotel in Philadelphia on Sunday because there were tabloid photographers stationed outside her house."

She wonders why tabloid photographers stationed themselves, like so many snipers, in the bushes outside her hotel in Colorado.

With a heroine who is a reluctant tabloid photographer, it is an entire series built around America's obsession with celebrity.

"These tabloid photographers have ruined our lives," she said, adding that both the reporters and photographers were stalking her entire family.

Weegee, the great tabloid photographer of the 1940's and 50's, took a remarkable picture of Veronica Lake.

Similarly, the executives felt the questions faced by a tabloid photographer were not morally complicated enough to drive the series.

You can't buy respectability with a lawsuit against a tabloid photographer.

He had groaned aloud, and that was when the tabloid photographer had snapped his picture for Mabel's paper.