How the privacies of the British royals are being, invaded by the paparazzi, how they don't have ANY privacy, how Princess Catherine's health is a matter of "world interest", and, DO remember, how it was the paparazzi that's caused Princess Diana to die in that car crash from before, did you forget all of that already, and this is still happening, despite its BAD, precedence…
Days before Catherine, Princess of Wales, ended the wild speculation over her absence from public life by revealing that she is battling cancer, a top royal journalist appeared on British national television and delivered a stark message to the media: Knock it off.
what had happened in Princess Diana's case...she can't even walk down a street without getting caught! Photo from online
"I think everyone just needs to give her a little bit of space," Roya Nikkhah, royal editor of The Sunday Times of London, said on "Good Morning Britain."
The idea of an editor at Rupert Murdoch-owned publication scolding other journalists for nosiness may strike some as a bit rich. After all, London newspapers pioneered the celebri-fication of the House of Windsor, famously hounding the previous Princess of Wales, Diana, and exposing the most microscopic details of her and her children's private lives.
In the case of Catherine's recent whereabouts, however, the British press largely showed an unusual level of restraint.
Yes, they reported on the frenzy of rumors, but mostly in the guise of scolding social media users for spreading conspiracies. When the American outlet TMZ obtained a paparazzi photo of Catherine, who is also known as Kate, and her mother in a car, the London papers unanimously declined to publish it.
And once Kate's cancer was revealed, British media were quick to assail their counterparts across the pond, accusing American tabloids and media figures of recklessly amplifying the more outlandish rumors.
how although the British paparazzi didn't chase after the news this time, the outcome is still, just the same
with the royal family's privacy getting, invaded! Photo from online
The royal family and Fleet Street are a pair of British institutions whose fates and fortunes have long been entwined—and they are facing similar challenges in the new media age.
Gatekeepers who once controlled the official flow of information—be it palace press secretaries, or tabloid editors—are increasingly powerless against the online tide. When it was first revealed that Kate had undergone abdominal surgery, Kensington Palace declared that it would not offer further updates about her condition. Britain's royal correspondents, who have a long-term relationship with the future king and queen to worry about, mostly abided by that directive.
But both camps were flummoxed by the rampant misinformation that spread on the internet. The tabloids that once led the way in royal sensationalism—and are still grappling with a long-running phone hacking scandal—were now helpless to shut it down. And palace officials, reluctant to compromise Kate's privacy, mistakenly believed that the rumors would fizzle out.
The result was a narrative drive by online chatter that spun out of the traditional gatekeepers' control.
the famous trying to escape paparazzi...
Yeah, this is still, IRRESPONSIBLE, journalism here, because you won't give us something juicy we make something juicy up, because that's what sells our papers, where's the MORAL responsibilities in that, huh? Because these people ARE famous, they don't DESERVE the privacy that we normal folks do (I mean, nobody wants to KNOW what's happening in an unknown person's life that's for sure!), but because these people are famous, they deserve to get their lives examined underneath that microscope right???
And, didn't Princess Diana DIE in that car crash, trying to escape the paparazzi from before too? And, these blood suckers still NEVER, learn!
