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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked this take -- https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/10/02/harry-and-meghans-war-on-press-freedom/

[quote]Harry’s statement about the tabloids is an ugly, elitist act of monarchical privilege.

There is a striking irony in The Harry and Meghan Show. This pair present themselves as a new kind of royal: chilled out, PC, green, more likely to visit a Peckham radio station run by struggling youths than a cake-making charity run by women with blue-rinsed helmet hair. And yet scrape away their chilled, chatty veneer and what we have here are two of the most elitist and snobby royals in the Windsor household. And that’s saying something.

Consider Prince Harry’s outrageous statement about the tabloid press, published yesterday. Its censoriousness and elitism are staggering. It echoes the pre-1960s period in which the monarchy arrogantly assumed it could bully the media into telling only happy, agreeable stories about royal personages. It drips with contempt for the tabloid press in particular. Harry describes Meghan as ‘one of the latest victims of [the] British tabloid press’, which apparently pumps out ‘relentless propaganda’ that is designed to ‘manipulate you, the reader’. Oh gracious prince, please save us gullible plebs from manipulation by evil newspapers! What a pompous ass he is.

Harry issued the statement to coincide with legal action that Meghan is taking against the Mail on Sunday for ‘unlawfully’ publishing the ‘contents of a private letter’. This pertains to the Mail on Sunday’s publication in February of a handwritten letter Meghan sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. This is a deeply disturbing legal action. It poses a very serious threat to the freedom of the press. Reading Harry’s statement and some of the gushing coverage of it from the tabloid-hating liberal elite, you could be forgiven for thinking that hacks from the Mail on Sunday got hold of the letter by sinister, criminal means. Not so. The letter was given to the newspaper by Meghan’s father.

In her letter, Meghan pleads with her father to stop selling stories to the press. Mr Markle then gave the letter itself to the press – to the Mail on Sunday. If newspapers are to be reprimanded or punished for publishing documents freely given to them by the owners of those documents, that will represent a devastating blow for press freedom. It is astonishing and highly ill-advised that the Sussexes are taking this action; it suggests that in certain quarters of the royal family there lingers a pre-modern disdain for the right of mere mortals and cheap newspapers to question royal personages....[/quote]

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What the hell is a spiked online? Someone's blog.

How about...the Guardian. Respectable with a journalism degree and a PhD...how novel.

[b]Prince Harry’s letter resonates because it's not just the royals bullied by the red-tops [/b]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2019/oct/02/prince-harry-letter-shows-you-dont-have-to-be-royal-to-be-bullied-by-the-red-tops

My wife has become one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences,” wrote Prince Harry as he and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday for publishing a handwritten letter she had sent to her estranged father.
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I am a lifelong republican but reading Harry’s letter, I found myself practically cheering. Seeing the red-tops turn on Meghan Markle over the last year has been like watching a type of abusive relationship from afar, in which various gossips have worked with the worst parts of the press to relentlessly harass, bully, and vilify a new mother. [/u]Royal hangers-on will talk of how speaking out in such terms is an unprecedented move for the monarchy but Harry’s letter is powerful because it is human; it is the words of a husband who has watched the wife he loves suffer and has finally had enough.[/quote]

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