Outrage | 太過份了

Yesterday morning I was rudely awakened by a phone call from my management telling me that a certain "trash" magazine had released photos taken of me inside my apartment. When I finally saw them, I was shocked and horrified to find that these paparazzi had been staked-out outside my house for several days and monitoring my every move. They chose to print the most distasteful selection of photos of my girlfriend and I and of course accompanied it with extremely low class writing to go with. I was especially appalled by what they wrote about Lisa. Why do these "trash" magazines feel they need to constantly demean women in this way? I am not the first person this has happened to and I will most likely not be the last, but this kind of gross invasion of privacy must be stopped. Why must the Hong Kong media behave in such ways? Why must they do everything possible to make public personalities live in constant fear and paranoia? Even in other parts of the world, where the paparazzi are known to be more menacing than Hong Kong, these kind of photos are not allowed to go to press simply because there are laws protecting people from this. Why don't these laws exist in Hong Kong? People know that I am quite an easygoing guy. I understand that I am a public figure and that I am target to public scrutiny, that is why in the past when I am "outside" in the public, I make an effort to be nice to the paparazzi and have never expressed anger or ill will towards them. It's their job and their right to do what they do, however, I do not believe that I should be fearful of being watched in my own home, in fact, no one should regardless if they are public personality or not. This said, I don't blame the paparazzi. It's not really their fault. The fault is of the magazines, their editors and their bosses. They are the ones that allow this to happen. They are the ones lowering society's standards. They are the big boss drug dealers who could care less about hurting people and the world they live in. There is no other country in the world where gossip magazines out number newspapers and regular magazines besides Hong Kong. What does that say about Hong Kong? These magazines are the ugly "monsters" of the media industry and of our society. I think it is time that we make a stand against these "monsters". This will be a difficult battle because these "monsters" are corporations with plenty of money and power and connections and can easily fight off us individual victims. However, if you believe in the story of David and Goliath, then this battle can be won and they only way we can win this, is if we band together and express our outrage and try to have some form of government policy made. Also to you fans and members of the public, if you can at all understand what this puts artistes through and you feel any sense of compassion for us, I please beg you to STOP buying these "trash" magazines because demand for this junk is what feeds the monster, if you don't buy them, then they can't be supported. Advertisers: Think clearly before you advertise with these "trash" magazines. Do you really want your product associated with so much garbage? I have already stopped working with these magazines a long time ago, so you won't find any "real" information about me in them anyway. I have also decided I will reject any advertising campaigns that insist on advertising with these magazines. I have received a tremendous amount of support from my company, my close friends and family on this matter. All three of the ALIVE boys called me individually yesterday to lend me their support. I was extremely touched by the fact that they were able to put away our recent troubles (which were blown out of proportion by the media, of course.) and able to rally together to support me on this issue. "Don't mess with the ALIVE family" is the message that I felt from them. In fact at one point yesterday I was thinking about moving out of Hong Kong entirely but Terence calmed me down and suggested I write this blog to vent my frustrations instead. It is times like these when you know the true colors of your friends and I am glad to say that each and everyone is standing by my side. The other night at the Hong Kong Entertainment Expo, Maggie Cheung received an award for her accomplishments in the film industry. For her speech, instead on just the regular kudos, she actually dedicated her speech to plead with the Hong Kong media to "stop stomping on our own industry and our own people" because if they don't ,there will no longer be a next generation to fill the ranks. It was brave and bold of her to reach out and take action. Her speech and what has happened to me has made me decide to make a bigger effort on this front. I hope that you will all support me on this mission. Thank you for reading. Daniel

昨天早上，我被經理人公司的電話吵醒，他說有某家「垃圾」雜誌偷拍且刋登了我家的內貎。當我見到那些照片時，才赫然發現這個狗仔隊原來已經在我家外監視了好幾天，而且還偷拍了我在家的一舉一動。他們專挑我和我女朋友在一起時最不好看的照片刋出，還加上極之低級的文字。我尤其驚訝於他們這麼寫Lisa，為甚麼會有這種垃圾雜誌總是要貶低女人﹖

    我不是第一個遭遇到這種事的人，我相信我也不是最後的一個。但這種下流的侵犯他人私隱的行為真的應該遏止，為甚麼香港的傳媒要這樣﹖為甚麼他們總是盡一切所能地要干擾公眾人物的私生活，要他們生活在惶恐之下﹖就連世界其他地區最有威脅性的狗仔隊都沒有香港的恐怖。他們是不會刋登這種照片的，因為公眾人物是有法律保障的。香港為甚麼沒有這種法例﹖

    大家都知道我算是個容易相處的人，我也知道我是公眾人物和我是大家注意的目標，這就是為甚麼過去我每出到公眾場合，對那些狗仔隊都會表現得很友善，也從來沒有跟他們動過氣或惡言相向。這是他們的工作，他們有權去報道。但我不認為他們有必要監視我的住家到令我感到害怕﹔沒有人應該在私生活上受到威脅，無論他是否公眾人物。

    我不是責怪狗仔隊，這不全是他們的錯。這錯在雜誌。錯在他們的編輯和老闆。是他們容許它發生。他們把社會的標準拉低了，這種毒販似的大老闆根本不關心傷害到別人和他們的生活﹔世界上沒有甚麼地方比香港更多八卦雜誌，多到比報紙和正規雜誌更多。知道人家怎麼說香港嗎﹖這些醜惡的怪物（雜誌）是我們的社會和傳媒工業的產物！

    我想，是時候站起來對抗這個「怪物」了。這或會艱苦，因為這「怪物」是大企業、有錢、有權、有勢…，要攻擊我們這種勢單力薄的受害者，易如反掌。但無論如何，如果你相信聖經中「大衛與巨人」的故事，那這場仗就會贏。唯一致勝的方法就是團結一致，去表達我們的憤怒，去要求政府立例保障個人私隱！

    還有，「粉絲」和大家，如果你們能明白藝人所經受之苦，又對我們感到同情，都請停止購買這些垃圾雜誌。因為這會把這怪物越餵越大。如果你不買，他們便得不到支持！而廣告商們也要認真考量一下，當你在這些垃圾雜誌上刋登廣告之前，請再三考慮你是否希望你的產品和這些垃圾放在一起﹖我很久以前已不再跟這些雜誌打交道，而你也不會在這些雜誌找到我真正的消息。我更加决定不會接拍一些堅持在垃圾雜誌刋登的廣告。

    我從我的公司同事、朋友、家人中得到極大的認同和支持。我那三個Alive老友昨天也都分別打電話表示支持。這份感動，把我近來的煩惱都丟開（當然都是傳媒誇大的報導）。團結就是力量！告訴你，別瞎攪和我們Alive這個大家庭！

    其實昨天真有一點想要離開香港，但子維安慰我，要我冷靜，更建議我在部落格寫出來發洩我的憤怒。從這件事上可見誰是你的真朋友！我很高興在我身邊有這麼多好友支持我。

    那晚在「香港影視娛樂博覽」中，張曼玉接受電影成就獎後發表演說時，並沒有如常的公式感謝，只說希望傳媒停止踐踏自己的工業和自己的人，因若繼續踐踏，會沒有新一代來承接。她大膽和勇敢地提出，正好跟我的際遇不謀而合，令我更願意付出努力去纠正歪風。我希望你們能支持我完成這個使命！

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