On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Grant Watson wrote:
> No I don't expect he would.
I dont think he would either, i dont think many people understood what
barnaby was on about.
> What I think he was trying to point out is that although the death of
> Princess Diana, her boyfriend and her driver is understandably very tragic,
> the world media is acting like such a three-ringed circus over it that one
> would think it was the most shockingly terrible event of the year. It's
> cynical, highly dubious and exactly the sort of sordid media attention that
> it now looks like may have caused her car to crash.
when it gets down to it, all they seem to care about is how many damn
newspapers their going to sell. I pity the poor sod who they turn their
attention at now that princess Di has sadly passed away.
> And yet only two days ago 100 people were burned alive, beaten senseless
> and hacked to death and the media didn't even give it a second glance.
> That's about 25 times the human tragedy of this car crash in Paris. But
> no one in that town in Algeria was a celebrity. None of them had opened
> hospitals, had dinner with the President of the USA or had their marraige
> televised to millions of viewers worldwide.
> So as far as the media was concerned, it wasn't worth worrying about
> because who on Earth is interested in a bunch of nobodies anyway?
I hope Mr Stuart Littlemore has something to say about all this. not that
those fleet street idiots will know about it.
> Cheers!
> Grant.
cheers to you, grant,
Andrew Millan
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