Perez Hilton

Mario Armando Lavanderia who is better known as Perez Hilton is an american blogger and television personality. Perez Hilton has his own blog called Perezhilton.com, which covers gossip items about celebrities. He also posts tabloid tabloid photographs over which he adds captions or doodles. His blog has seen negative opinions as Perez Hilton has outed closeted celebrities.
Perez has befriended Paris Hilton and rarely reports on stories or rumours casting Paris Hilton in a negative light, and is often praising her positive achievements which is unusual for a gossip blog. He also promotes his favourite and up coming musicians.
Hilton faces problems and criticism in day to day life. A suit against Hilton for copyright infringment was filed by Zomba Label Group on October 11, 2007, stating Hilton illegaly posted recordings by Britney Spears on Perezhilton.com.
Bloggers, journalists and news agencies have charged Hilton of copyrighting content from their sites but Hilton defends his use of this material by claiming it falls under the fair use exception to the Copyright Act.
On his blog, Hilton is open about his homosexuality and his desire to 'ou' those who he claims are closeted gay celebrities.
Recent Controversy- Shortly after Michael Jackson had gone into cardia arrest Hilton claimed it was a publicity stunt. "Get your money back, ticket holders!!!!" and "jacko pulled a smiliar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in '95 when he 'collapsed' at rehersal!". After realizing the death was not a hoax Hilton immediately deleted the origional news post and replaced it with a shorter message stating Jackson was in a cardia arrest. Hilton recieved backlash for the incident and getting involved in a Twitter argument with Pete Wentz over the situation.
From this we have leanr of some of the issues the paparazzi face and the ways of publicising themselves through websites but lso the backlash from being in the public eye.