Diana: The Witness in the Tunnel

[ratty]

I certainly won't be watching, and would hope that other do not. It's someone's MUM ffs!

FFS I said FFS FFS!

[Keef]

With regards the letter, I suspect Prince William wasn't allowed to write it himself, it would've had to be checked by the royal spin doctors first. I'm not a bag royals fan, I just think this is wrong whoever it was dying.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Read a bit more about this in TimeOut on the way home. They put a very positive spin on the whole thing, with the only shot in the programme having already been printed on the front page of a newspaper (which I don't recall causing the same outrage)

The thrust of the programme being that the photographers became the scapegoat at the time, supposedly interfering with the medics trying to attend - something I remember clearly at the time. So if this isn't true (and medics at the scene are interviewed saying that the photographers did NOT impede) then we have an interesting public-interest story - "Mass hysteria at time of death forces a scapegoat mentality which affects many living people's lives for a decade") The photos at the centre of the storm are used to support this argument and do not show any ghoulish images...

So I'm at a loss as to what the fuss is about - if I read what I wrote at the beginning of my first post above it's apparent I fell in line with the pervading mood about how wrong CH4 were. And I might now be falling in line with an article I read in a magazine.. But without watching it I'm not sure we can use the word "wrong" in the moral sense??

[SeanMacGabhann]

Now that the programme has been broadcast this thread has gone quiet - did anyone watch it in the end? Thoughts?

[jim_the_chin]

I did watch it and it was quite interesting in the way it went through the timeline in excrutiating detail. My two-penneth:

1. The photo was up for about 4 seconds, nothing could be seen and it added nothing to the programme. It could easily have been dropped.

2. Diana was mercilessly hounded by the paps but did use them quite a lot to publicise herself.

3. If they'd been wearing seatbelts we wouldn't be having this discussion

[batdog]

That program was a carefully planned self promoting stunt from Ch 4 executives to increase viewing.

Infact the program has revealed absolutely nothing to its viewers, old story re-edited with no new evidence.

[SeanMacGabhann]

TV station in bid to increase viewing Batdog???

I need a lie down

[batdog]

Yeah...unbelievable...!!!