Steven Barnett Professor of Communications, University of Westminster “I WOULD SIT up at night, and I was just, like, I don’t understand how all of this is being churned out … And I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.”
These timely leaks included the suggestion that Meghan was given earrings by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shortly after the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered, a wardrobe story deemed sufficiently heinous to warrant a dedicated tweet. Clearly, the Oprah interview is worrying minds.Where the press goes, some TV programmes follow.
This treatment isn’t always confined to the tabloids, however. The British broadsheet The Telegraph, for example, was equally happy to headline a highly tenuous link with terrorist groups in 2018. Ten days later, Meghan won her privacy case against the same publisher in a summary judgement in which the judge called the publication of her father’s letter “manifestly excessive and hence unlawful”. The British press does not like being bested in court, and the Mail in particular will be looking to exact revenge. Second, there is a commercial imperative: sales and clickbait. The royal family sells newspapers and attracts online readers.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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