Does anyone actually WANT to see Princess Diana dying?

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Why is this public interest and why does it need to be shown? the poor princes! I just dont understand.

when's it on?

If the programme stops people going on about conspiracy theories, talking about her as if she was a saint rather than acknowledging hr many flaws and prevents the Daily Express from putting her on the cover every other day ( I am waiting to see the headline my house price has never recovered from the death of Saint Di!) then I will glady watch while listening to Englands Rose and drinking a cup of tea out of a Princess Di commemortaive mug.

actually if it is on at the same time as the apprentice even that wouldn't tempt me.

Nah, the footballs on

C4 have a hugely over-inflated notion of how far it is for them to judge what is in the public intrest. It's not as if the details haven't bee made free with in the public realm ad nauseam, anyway. The Inquiry is available for anyone who has a detailed and obsessive need to know.

C4 are so far off the mark from what they could be, these days. Non-stop sensationalism skimpily dressed up as intellectual explorations in the public interest.

Yes - they are trying to dress it up as clearing the issue surrounding the paps. They were blamed initially for contributing to the accident and getting in the way. This is meant to dispell this.

It's just spin though as the inquiry has already spelt it out to anyone that was interested that the paps were way back.

Complete tosh from 4 AGAIN.

Well what did you think?

No shock horror photos (thank goodness) but yet again the fact that that Dodi or Diana were not wearing seatbelts was not emphasised.

That's the main reason why they are dead imo.

Look at the thread below this one in "In the news". It is called "Baby Shiloh is so cute" and links to a site called babyrazzi which is 100s of pap pics of celebrity babies. I think these two threads being next to each other show a real problem - people are happy to condem paps but also like to view their products.

mercy I agree- it was on in backgroudn and must admit it was quite dull . Didnt really see anything and was more about how paparazzi were treated by authorities/public etc after death so much less sensational than you'd think

It did strike me very forcibly that. All these people who didn't know diana weeping for her, who had probably bought the magazines, photos etc., blaming the paps for doing the very thing that they supported by buying the photos. It was a real guilt transferral thing, wasn't it? Talk about not taking responsiblity.

And yes, once again forcibly reminded that if they had been wearing seatbelts, they probably would not have died that night.

VSS - I found the whole 'weeping/crying/laying flowers' thing so utterly grotesque and hypocritical.

I was not a Diana fan whatsoever and I found it laughable that all of these people were wailing that she had died when normally she was just entertainment/media fodder.

Oh, and sorry but she defo knew how to 'play' the press.

....But do I want to see her dying. Erm no.

I was working just around hte corner from Buckingham Palace during this time and it was extraordinary to see so many people laying flowers, walking around, crying etc. I went up there and wandered around - amazing sight. People in a terrible state.

I thought the 'public outpouring of grief' was crass in the extreme until I actually went up to Kensington Palace at night (on way back from pub, he he), and saw people holding candlelight vigils and weeping into each other's bosoms etc etc. Then I actually found it fascinating more than disturbing
I genuinely believe people WERE affected by her death.

On the matter of the documentary - I didn't watch it. The only reason C4 featured those images was to increase their viewing figures - any other justification is bullshit.

Seems to me this programme was nothing to do with Diana. It was about the journalists saying it wasn't their fault.

I agree Wilkie, i couldn't understand why the public/press slated the royal family for not coming out and supporting them (public) in their greif.

When they were doing what normal people do in those horrific circumstances and helping their family and 2 young children in their greif.

Well I watche dit and it was pretty rubbish - i.e it made her out to be manipulating the press - which I suppose she did

Lizziemum - but the point is, they aren't normal people, they're royalty. They are public figures, with a responsibility to that public. If they want to live in Buckingham Palace and wear the Crown Jewels, they have to do the tough stuff, too - like address the nation after a major public figure dies in a horrific car crash. I personally think the Queen waited far too long to come out and say something. Incredibly bad judgement, that woman.

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Against my better judgement I watched this.
Am now even more enraged with C4 - what a cynical and sensationalist build up - there were no identifiable pics of D dying - a very grainy murky pic of the back of the car with a rectangle blocking out anything that migt have been identifiable, and one shot of a lower part of trousered leg in the car door which may have been any of the occupants, as far as we knew.

And what a disgraceful exoneration of the media themselves. The treatment of the paparazzi was clearly disgraceful in the police station - but all that has been documented. And they were there chasing the car once they realised they had gone out the bcak, trying to catch up - and they were trying to get pics to a public who slavered over every intrusive glimpse of the woman.

A totally un-needed programme, steped in hypocrisy and cynicism. Would rather watch honest lightweight entertainment than this pretentious dishonest crap

What exactly is the "public interest"? I wonder sometimes if the media thinks it just means "are the public interested?"

Lizziemum - think you have me mixed up with someone elses post chuck

I agree, Blu. The image that was in the programme wasn't needed at all. It was just sensationalism on the part of the producers or whoever decided to stir up a bit of controversy. Pathetic as why did they have to do this and cause upset to diana's family like that over one photograph that didn't do anything to further the debate about what happened?