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Written by Valarie Beadle

Our policy at Dot Net is that we look for the positive. We enjoy interviewing our visitors' favorite actors, celebrities and entertainers and telling something about them that they might not know; we like bringing "regular people" a bit into their lives and letting you see things from their point of view.

We believe strongly in mutual respect. Entertainers need their fans for their livelihoods. Fans need their entertainers for whatever reason: sheer enjoyment, feeling like you're walking in someone else's shoes or life - it's usually mutually beneficient. What you have seen in our interviews is pretty much a smidgen of what most of our actors, entertainers and celebs say. We freely edit when someone says something that they didn't mean to; exposes a bit too much for their comfort level, or simply asks us not to include something. We believe it makes for a better interview actually. We have a trust level with our subjects that allows them to relax, to speak freely and to actually enjoy telling us about a portion of their personal or professional lives. Being family friendly, we really don't want to do an exposé - we readily admit that we're not the National Enquirer or another tabloid. There are certain lines that we deliberately choose not to cross.

Life happens and sometimes it sucks. In the past several months, actually over the past few years, we've seen entertainers and celebrities implode in their real lives, making questionable choices, doing questionable or downright stupid things. We choose not to dwell on these. If an person of interest does something; a crime for example; that we feel is inappropriate - we just won't interview them or promote them. End of story. If a "POI" has something occur to them; beyond their scope of control; again, we make a judgement call. We might (and usually do) present the official account, but we're not going to intrude into their lives.

We at Dot Net are officially protesting the paparazzi who go beyond what is reasonable and appropriate to intrude into people's lives; people such as Britney Spears and as daytime's latest example, Nathaniel Marston. Did they cause their own problems - yep; they're accountable for their actions - absolutely. But hounding a person into a traffic accident because there is no way on the face of the planet that she can avoid NOT bumping into you when you're inches from her car window, or intruding into a hospital room to take photos of an unconscious, vulnerable person is absolutely inappropriate and should be met with the harshest of legal penalties.

It comes down to what is morally right - not what makes the fastest buck or gets the most hits to your website or tabloid. There are lines that SHOULD be drawn. Hopefully we're not the only ones choosing to draw them here.

Valarie Beadle

Editor, Publisher

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