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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we live in a world like this. Everyone edits photos. It's like she did something no one's ever seen before.
Agree. There was some bad photoshopping - so what? There's a lot of bad photoshopping out there. Is the AP really going to pull half their pictures? Or was their statement inaccurate?
I take it you have not followed any of the developments in this story, nor read the thread?
I've read the entire thread. I think y'all are really really nuts and I also think the news agencies are playing strange games right now. They are either lying in their reason for taking down the picture, or are setting themselves up for huge problems with other edited pictures.
I wondered this as well: what celeb pic out there which is posed like that is NOT edited? Why pull it when all other pics of all other celebs which were edited are out there?
+1 Also I don't know how their press offices work, but do wire services and other news organizations routinely distribute pics posted on their social media accounts? That's what the problem seems to be.
A family's social media account is not the same as an official "news" photo. The wire services picked up the photo because of the "Where's Kate?" hoopla and failed to ensure a family photo (that would be perfectly fine for tweaking) met their "news standards." In their haste to put out the picture, they obviously didn't follow standard protocols.
Are y'all just not paying attention and hopping in at page one-hundred-eighty-whatever without context? Honestly.
No, the press did not just pull a photo from their Instagram. Their press office posted the photo to the Instagram and then also distributed a copy of the photo to news agencies for wider publication. This is part of the problem -- these agencies then published the photos as an official release of Kensington Palace, with the context that it was taken by William earlier in the week, as evidence that the Princess was recovering from surgery. And then it was revealed that the photo was heavily edited and may in fact have been 5 months old and that major elements of the photo, including what people were wearing, their expressions, etc., may have been altered.
The news agencies followed protocol, including killing the photo when evidence of photoshopping became so overwhelming that they could no longer justifiably use the photo as evidence of what they were reporting.
They're doing it on purpose because they don't like the pushback KP, William, and even Kate are getting. They know exactly what's wrong with this situation. If they were actual fans of Kate they would be worried and concerned as well. Instead, they're worried the fantasy with Kate/William has been broken.
I think you're right. There was a lot of this with Diana, too. I was a teen when the divorce went down, but I remember women my mom's age (age wise right between Diana and Charles) flipping out over it all in part because they'd bought in so hard to the fairy tale. They'd watched that wedding on TV and coveted Dianas big princess dress and the jewels, watched this tall striking couple jet around the world and be cheered by adoring crowds, seen them welcome home two healthy babies, one an heir to the British throne. They didn't want to give up their fantasy and there was a lot of denial about the reality (which was tawdry and sad) for a long time. You can actually track public sentiment on everyone involved (Diana, Charles, Camilla, the Queen) based on who seemed to most threaten that fairy tale at the moment. Sometimes Camilla was the villain for being the AP, sometimes Diana for not finding a way to make it work, sometimes Charles for cheating, sometimes all of them for spoiling the image. But the Queen rarely came in for criticism because she was part of the fantasy. It was only much later that people started realizing (in part due to the Crown, which yes is fiction but these aspects of the show were based heavily on books about this era and interviews done later that shed light on what happened) that a lot of the problems in that marriage were caused by a family that basically forced Charles to marry Diana because she was a "suitable princess" and they needed an heir, ignoring the many, many reasons why they should not have married. And Diana was really young and poorly parented and the royal family did very little to support her or protect her. But it took years for people to understand that, because the image of this fairytale romance with a prince and a carriage and a castle and a happily ever after were so strong.
And it persists. That's why the royals have those big televised weddings and funerals and coronations. They want you to buy into the fantasy. That's what they are selling.