Is the media blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture.

No. The media should not be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture. The recently case of Rupert Mudoch phone scandal is a typical example of what happens when media looks for interesting news to attract customers. Actually, i think that it is the reader's fault. If the reader have a healthier mindset, the media would not need to do so much just to please the public. Besides, the media needs to survive in the media world and they have a lot of competition. I am not trying to say that the media did the right thing by hacking into other's phone just to get interesting news, in fact, what they are doing is absolutely wrong. The unhealthiness in the paparazzi culture is a chain effect from other paparazzi. When a certain media uses some certain unhealthy method to attract customers, the other media will follow suit and the culture will spread, spreading the "virus".