Pippa Middleton photographed 300 times a day, editor says

Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, watches ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament in London on Nov. 27, 2011.

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LONDON (CBS/AP) If you think you've been seeing a lot of Pippa Middleton lately, it's not your imagination.

The picture editor of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper says he sees up to 400 photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, cross his desk every day.

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Paul Silva says the younger sister of the former Kate Middleton typically has eight or nine photographers camped outside her door and estimated that they produce between "300 to 400 pictures" of her daily.

The 29-year-old London socialite became the "It" girl of the global media after she almost stole the show at her sister's royal wedding April 29, 2011, in a figure-hugging white gown by Alexander McQueen.

Lon Silva was answering questions at the Leveson Inquiry, a judge-led investigation into the ethics of the country's media.

The inquiry was set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal centered on Rupert Murdoch's News of the World and has heard from celebrities who say they were hounded by paparazzi.

Silva said Wednesday that he saw no need to constantly run photographs of Pippa Middleton.

[th9876]

I think the press is trying to make these two women out to be more than they really are - in looks I mean. I'd say they are pleasantly average, certainly not raving beauties.

[beinginformed]

The cameramen are slimy creeps invading someone's privacy, no matter how famous or not famous, and could be considered stalkers. It is clearly harassment.

[longtree-2009]

don't get it. pippa isn't all that attractive, just average. now, now. beauty is in the eye of the beholder. just don't see her as a beauty nor her sister either.

[Judson44]

Paparazzi, for the most part, face the target in public -- annoying and unwelcome as that is. However, the public at large is subject to surveillance and monitoring everywhere we go. Even private moments can be invaded and we wouldn't know it. Technology makes it easy and secret. We don't know who is looking or what is really done with the information that is collected. Paparazzi are a pain but at least we can see what they're doing and confront them if so inclined.

[Jaylah54]

While most of us do "get our picture" taken many times per day by security cameras, etc., we do not have to endure 300 camera-flashes in our eyes each day.

I recall reading about occasions when Prince William's mother would end up having her escorts "frog-march" her down stairs because she was so blinded by camera flashes that she couldn't see.

[Bojax39]

by Jaylah54: "While most of us do "get our picture" taken many times per day by security cameras, etc., we do not have to endure 300 camera-flashes in our eyes each day."

That is very true. We don't endure the flashes. But you and me and everybody else endures having cameras watching virtually every move we make including sometimes in places that we expect to be private like changing rooms and such.

THAT is news worthy and deserves investigation and media attention.... some woman getting snapped by an over eager press is annoying but really not worth the international press.

[bobnjersey]

[Paul Silva says the younger sister of the former Kate Middleton ...]
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former ... as in no longer? this seems a bit strange.

[Judson44]

Since Kate is now married, she is no longer Middleton.

[tsigili]

Precisely why the paparazzi should be BANNED!

[Bojax39]

"Pippa Middleton photographed 300 times a day, editor says"

Not to mentioned the hundreds of times she, and the rest of us, are photographed by traffic cams, web cams, store and other security cams every day. The paparazzi are just more blatant about it. :-)

[CathCoy]

Those cameras don't follow you around, do they?!

If you're not holding a camera, it's called stalking. If you're holding a camera, it's called journalism.

[Bojax39]

by CathCoy: "Those cameras don't follow you around, do they?!"

No they don't. They are simply placed everywhere (including some places we should have reasonable expectations of privacy), in advance. My point is we all get photographed MANY times every day and being photoed is NOT newsworthy.....

What's YOUR point?