Do we really need to know?
Are we really shallow when it comes to tabloid news and gossip? How far do they [the media] need to go for information that apparently is in the “interest of the public”.
I ask this after two incidents this week. The enquiry into the death of Princess Diana and the alleged hounding of Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton by photographers.
Firstly in relation to the enquiry. Do we really need to know? She died 10 years ago and while I would imagine that is still hard thing to deal with for her family, and possibly other people around the world, I question whether all of the so called “facts” need to be drudged up again.
As far as I can see nothing good can come from this. Diana is not about to walk into the room where the enquiry is being held in a dramatic soap opera style fashion and those that may have been to blame for the incident have been persecuted and scrutinised to hell and back by the media over the past decade anyway.
So what do we gain? More fodder for the press? A chance for some associates of the Royal Family to have their name featured in stories? It seems to me it’s pointless. Why not drag up the death of John F Kennedy again in a new enquiry even though it happened 43 years ago or John Lennon’s death or Martin Luther King etc? Where does it stop?
When can people actually let go and let things rest in peace?
There are many pictures around of Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry , other members of the Royal family, the Fayed family etc. So tell me what way can harassing the Prince and Ms Middleton outside a nightclub just to get a picture actually serve in the interest of the public?
I really do not understand it even if it’s a case of trying to prove that some in the Royal Family are “normal” and can have a life, although not a private life as we will find out everything about them in due course I’m sure.
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 and is filed under Views on News.
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