Celebs smarter than paparazzi?

Whether peaking at your girlfriends, or while standing in line at the grocery store, everyone has done it... read a celebrity magazine that is. We all know that the magazines follow some sort of format, to which the celebrity of the moment is plugged into. What we generally don't know is that these celebrities have more control over the "stalkarzzi" than we think. An article written in the Wall Street Journal suggests that the new age of celebrities have finally figured out a way to manage their own public image, instead of submitting that control to a person with an index finger.

Now, the stars that frequent these magazines are taking back control. The Journal explains that these stars are actually hiring their own photographers to act as paparazzi. These hired photogs capture seemingly random or private moments under the guidance of the stars themselves. They tip their photographers off to their own whereabouts and develop a mutual relationship with magazine editors.

Janice Min, editor in chief of US Weekly states that, "at least 50% of what you see in terms of Hollywood coverage is something that was not necessarily born organically. This is a totally symbiotic relationship. This is how celebrities survive."

So I ask you this: If we can't even trust the slimy rawness of paparazzi photos, what can we trust?