Mom-and-paparazzi Edit Meaning

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The annoying parents who show up at every school assembly an hour early so that they can reserve the first two rows to set up their tripods and capture junior's fifteen minutes of fame for posterity on no fewer than six video cameras. Of course, they do not know enough about their equipment to properly charge the batteries or set the functions to "silent," so the entire evening will be punctuated with random whirrs and beeps, and no one sitting behind them (which, of course, is everyone) will be able to see or hear a damn thing!

I missed my daughter's flute solo thanks to the mom-and-paparazzi staked out in the front of the auditorium taping their son's oboe medley.

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