Boycott 'vile' Diana photos

[Jacques]

But it is OK to show the dead children of Israel/Lebanon/Gaza Strip.


Discuss.

[PKAY]

What is all this about?

[Jacques]

Story here

[Sam Slater]

My initial reation is that they're the same issue's treated differently, which is wrong.

When I think about it though I think there's a difference.

Showing blown up children at a bus stop in Lebanon may bring home the horrors of terrorism, so people don't think too lighly of it. Maybe these kinds of pictures may dissuade other 'would be' terrorists. they're pictures that shout, "LOOK WHAT THE BASTARDS DID!"

Showing Princess Diana dying in the back of a car teaches us nothing really. The pictures tell us nothing, apart from she recieved oxygen before dying. Both sets of pictures are publicised to 'shock' and sell papers, but the Dianna pics are ALL about the money, and nothing else.

[chatterji]

Yep, the usual rank hypocrisy. Few things are more 'vile' than the media getting sanctimonious about any issue, given its central role in encouraging society to wallow in shite, bay for blood, and worship the brain-dead. I've never really understood why we need to see pictures of dying people, unless there's a point: conscience-prodding for charity is the only valid reason for it, I'd say. I suppose it's just voyeurism, but personally I'm not keen on snuff porn.

Watching the mass hysteria that surrounded the death of Princess Diana, when the morons came out in their millions to mourn someone they didn't know as the 'people's princess', (inconvenient that she was born into generations of huge wealth), and emote in public in a repugnantly American way, was a real education for me. She was a neurotic, self-obsessed, over-privileged idiot. She was the real Posh Spice, yet she's revered as if she were a saint. Her death was only a tragedy for those who knew and loved her.

[steve56]

some cameraman claims to have a quickie with her lasting 2 mins,lol.

[The Last Word]

photo-taker wrote:

> I don't want to get in to all sorts, but she was not wearing her seat belt ?

One of the many anomalies. No, she wasn't, and neither was Dodi. The only passenger in the car who was was the bodyguard. Apparently this is the reverse of what is expected in these situations: everyone belted up apart from the bodyguard (for quicker ease of movement, presumably). Probably nothing in it, but very odd all the same.

Re: photos. Not sure, but I always thought that CCTV footage of what happened would've been primary to the whole Diana death scandal. Turns out all seventeen cameras in the tunnel weren't working that evening, for some reason.

[Pervert]

Yeah, the Duke of Edinburgh switched them off. Then escaped in his white Fiat Panda.

The whole thing was both dodgy and yet somehow inevitable. Admittedly, I was drunk when the news of the "accident" first broke, and yet at no stage of the night did I feel in any way surprised, which is surprising in itself.

Almost nine years on, and still the candles burn brightly in the shrines in the Express and Mail offices.

[mrmcfister]

People die in car accidents every day through drunk driving.Dodi employed a drinker to drive them.Stupid mistake.Then both to not wear a seat belt while belting it through concrete..?Stupid mistake.

People think they're invincible.Stupid mistake...