I don’t make a habit of watching GMTv however this morning I caught five minutes where they were talking about press intrusion. Apparently the Sun newspaper and other members of its horrid little gang have agreed not to publish photos of Prince William’s girlfriend, the comely Kate Middleton. This comes after uproar (presumably in the papers, probably the Daily Mail) about press intrusion in to her life.
At the same time they were running footage of the poor girl walking down the street with cameras shoved inches from her face, flash guns going off repeatedly in her eyes. Nasty. And yet the paper said that although the photos won’t be published in the press here, the photographers will still pursue her in exactly the same manner because the demand for photos overseas makes it big business.
So I was just wondering exactly how Kate Middleton benefits from the papers not publishing photos? And how paparazzi behaviour isn’t classed as stalking and therefore against the law. If it’s legal to hound and stalk someone with a camera then it should be legal to shoot paparazzi with a gun. At least that would make it a fair fight.
Perhaps the Royal family should insist, if it can’t be controlled, that any unofficial photograph of the Royal Family and those linked, is taxed, and that the tax goes to a charity. At least someone then benefits other than the fat bloke who has been hiding in a bush all day with a telephoto lens.
The other thing that irks me is how does this stuff constitute being news? Somebody getting a parking ticket isn’t news. This is moron fodder, a distraction from actual news like people starving to death, being firebombed, flooding, global warming, terrorism, extinction etc etc - none of this crap actually matters, and all it does is divert our attention from the real news - the real issues that we as a planet should be concerning ourselves with.
Sigh. Rant over.
