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Originally Posted by Cazzie  I don't think that there's anyone in this country who won't remember what they were exactly doing when the news broke. |
I remember exactly what was happening. I was up late and heard the news break on Radio 5 - there was some late night discussion show where one of the guests basiacally said - "Terribly sorry that anyone gets hurt, but what's all the fuss about, this was a spoilt rich woman, who played at caring but did little to actually enact her concerns into action and change, and for God's sake, let's not get swept up in a tidal wave of emotion over somone attractive who we have never met" Couldn't agree more. Funnily enough, that was the only dissenting voice I heard on the broadcast media for the next several years. Self imposed censorship? Due to guilt?
I then went to bed, and by the time I got up to travel for a training course in the morning, it seemed she had already been beatified by the media for whatever reason (guilt again?). I was going on a 5 hour trip in a car which had no radio, and how grateful I was. I was so embarrassed by the reaction that seems to be best classed as emotional hysteria.
A media contact of mine in London described how at first there was only a very small pile of flowers. for the first day, but with judicious editing, by the time the news came on in the evening, the angle the footage had been filmed at gave the impression of a mountain of flowers as tributes, and what do you know, by the next day, presentation had become fact, and the 'tributes' flooded in, and the hysteria got ramped up.
It was, undeniably, a horrible personal tragedy, but keep it in proportion - this was a personal tragedy not a national one, and it staggers me that the grief of a rich dad, in combination with his close friendship with media owners has managed to keep this non-story going for 10 years. I'm sick and tired of the whole thing.
The whole idea of any conspiracy over this is utterly ludicrous (sorry to be blunt). There is no evidence to suggest any of that. There is no reason to think that. There is only an accident, where people died. It happens all the time -
worse things happen all the time - but when they don't affect the latest 'big thing' for the sunday supplements, and the glossy pulp gossip rags, no one cares. I care about the bog standard cases as much as I do about Diana and Dodi. It is all horrible - Diana is not a special case.