Re: Di quietly

[Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net>]

Alastair:

I must take issue at the base of your main premise. You are looking to
place blame and to unearth weakness. There is no crime in making money.
There is no shame in buying tabloids. There is no crime in puting people in
the public eye when those people choose to live in the public eye. If a
woman walks down the street naked I will look. If Di and her man dine in
public they should expect a look. Di could have stopped the whole incident
by pulling over to the curb, rolling down the window and giving them a good
grin. Diana and other celebs create the hot market for their photos by
making it hard to get those photos. But they are not to blame either. It is
their choice to run from popularity. This isn't a meaningful act of God. It
was a car accident caused by a drunk driver. 

Tom 

At 04:44 AM 9/4/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I have tried to stay out of this argument, but one thing has not been
>mentioned. We may in some way be to blame for "buying" the magazines which
>publish intrusive material, but in this respect, I see the end users more a
>victims. It is human nature to be inquisitive. Who amongst us will not
>sneak a peek a much of this sort of material, even if only to satisfy
>oneself that it is not for him/her. No, the readers are not to blame.
>Editors feed on the weaknesses of people and seek out these weaknesses in
>the same way as a drug dealer. There are so many of us who have these
>weaknesses. Di was loved by many for the person she was or was portrayed to
>be. Once firmly entrenched as an icon of love, the worlds press knows we
>will all have Di ideas and Di opinions, so they begin to play on them to
>induce our curiosity. As for the pararazzi, they have the age old weakness
>of greed without the decency, but they are no different from any other
>fortune hunters. The only way to deal with fortune hunters is to make the
>game too expensive or illegal, and as the law cannot really afford to hunt
>the individuals down, it must turn its attention to the real source of the
>poison and fine the magazines heavily for clear intrusions on privacy. If
>my mate Rupert lost money each time he published an image, he would not
>publish. The greed of the press cannot be trusted, it is human nature, in
>an age where it is easier than ever to be intrusive we must make it harder
>for that intrusion to pay.
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>In the end, the cumulative effects of being hounded drove this woman to do
>her untimely death. None of us would enjoy the endless "pursuit". May she
>and her friends rest in peace.
>
>Alastair Firkin
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