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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??

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

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