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10 SECONDS THAT SHAKES ENGLAND: FURY AT CBS-TV AIRING OF DYING DIANA
Drudge Report ^ | Apr 21 2004 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 04/21/2004 6:47:42 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort

Friends of Princess Diana last night expressed disbelief after a picture of her dying in the wreck of her Mercedes was broadcast on TV, the UK DAILY MAIL splashes on Thursday.


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The American network CBS showed the black and white image, taken by paparazzi moments after the car crashed in Paris.

On air for ten seconds, it clearly showed Diana's face, shoulders and upper torso as she lay dying.

Friends were distraught at the decision to show the picture, which they said would horrify Princes William and Harry. 'I am appalled, it is just beyond the pale,' said Vivienne Parry, a former trustee of the Diana Memorial Fund. 'This is something that should be absolutely private and there is no defence for deciding to show it.

'It is such a gross invasion of privacy. Here is a woman who is dying and you can do nothing about it - yet they replay that moment all over again.'

American fashion designer Lana Marks said the picture was 'the ultimate betrayal'.

She added: 'I can't believe they would do this. I am so shocked and hurt that they would air a picture of the princess's last minutes alive.

'I can't think of a more serious invasion of her privacy or anything that could be more terribly distressing for William and Harry.

'Their wellbeing was paramount to her and she would be devastated to think of what it will do to them to have a picture of their dying mother on television.'

The CBS programme, 48 Hours Investigates, showed the picture last night as part of a report entitled Diana's Secrets. It was accompanied by a voiceover from French doctor Frederick Maillez, who arrived at the crash scene at the Pont d'Alma tunnel and gave emergency first aid to the princess. He told viewers Diana's face was not injured and 'she still looked beauti ful' as he desperately tried to save her life.

CBS said the picture was one of several seized from French photographers which formed part of the official investigation into the crash in August 1997 in which Dodi Fayed and chauffeur Henri Paul also died.

'It is on air for about ten seconds,' said CBS spokesman Marcy Erhard. 'It is not gory in any way, shape or form. It is not graphic.'

Much of the hour-long programme was devoted to the 6,000-page French police report into the crash.

The Daily Mail revealed the report's details in January and they were also reported in a Channel 4 documentary the following month.

The princess's former bodyguard Ken Wharfe, who also appears on the programme, said he had no idea such a picture would be used.

'There are other ways of establishing the cause of Diana's death than showing pictures that even the paparazzi would not publish,' he added.

'I would have thought CBS would have done better than this. I was interviewed, but of course they didn't tell me they were planning to use this picture.'

Clarence House declined to comment on the broadcast last night.

A spokesman for Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed said the use of the image was distressing and dis-tasteful.

'All we know of is the stills which appeared in newspaper offices that night in Britain, which were not published by the editors,' he added. 'We have always believed that was the correct decision.'

Miss Parry said the picture should have remained unpublished as part of the investigation.

'The police see all sorts of such pictures, but they would never dream of imposing them on the families involved,' she added.

Miss Marks, a Florida-based fashion designer, accused American TV networks of 'oneupmanship' in their broadcasts about her friend.

She pointed to NBC's decision to broadcast earlier this year audiotapes of Diana talking about her marriage break-up.

'They are competing with each other to put out images which are more and more shocking,' she said.

'I thought it would be the European paparazzi out to make millions of dollars by selling a picture.

'I never expected it would be the media in my country that would do such a thing.'


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: princessdiana; seebs
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To: Leroy S. Mort
Did they find out Diana would have been a republican had she moved to America or something? This is disgusting and uncalled for. She deserved dignity and privacy in her last moments. The media was indeed the death of her, and they will never let her rest.
21 posted on 04/21/2004 7:19:48 PM PDT by ladyinred (Kerry has more flip flops than Waikiki Beach)
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To: Leroy S. Mort
If there's one person I can't stand hearing about it's Princess Diana. ENOUGH about this woman.
22 posted on 04/21/2004 7:21:38 PM PDT by Hildy (A kiss is the unborn child knocking at the door.)
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To: BOBWADE
Ugly scene. here is the link if you want to look.

Thanks, but no thanks...

23 posted on 04/21/2004 7:24:24 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Leroy S. Mort
'There are other ways of establishing the cause of Diana's death than showing pictures that even the paparazzi would not publish,' he added.

But the paparazzi sure did take the pictures. (And cashed the check!)

24 posted on 04/21/2004 7:26:04 PM PDT by myprecious
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To: Leroy S. Mort
I don't blame you. They should just leave her in peace.
25 posted on 04/21/2004 7:26:27 PM PDT by BOBWADE
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To: Leroy S. Mort
Yaaaawn...
26 posted on 04/21/2004 7:30:12 PM PDT by Russian Sage
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To: Howlin
Janet JacKson's mammary gland? There's no reason for the FCC to allow CBS to broadcast any longer. Git 'em off the air.
27 posted on 04/21/2004 7:34:47 PM PDT by WTSand
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To: Hildy
Aren't you missing "the big picture" here?
28 posted on 04/21/2004 7:36:57 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Leroy S. Mort
You really like all that white space while formatting....dontcha??!!??

Don't take it too seriesly...ya can never catch a break around here.

29 posted on 04/21/2004 7:42:58 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (Have you been thwarted today???)
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To: SamAdams76
BINGO!!!!!!!!! YOU NAILED IT !!!!
30 posted on 04/21/2004 7:43:48 PM PDT by Mr. K (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,I stole this cuz its funny,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø))
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To: Leroy S. Mort
CBS has sunk to tabloid level. First they funded a hatchet job on Bush with the 9-11 Committee hearings and now this. Janet Jackson's "wardrode error" has started their decline to even new depths.
31 posted on 04/21/2004 7:47:31 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Leroy S. Mort
Hell, they showed Kevorkian killing a man on TV didn't they.

It's CBS after all. Nothing too low!

32 posted on 04/21/2004 7:52:46 PM PDT by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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To: BOBWADE
Ugly scene. here is the link if you want to look. http://www.ishipress.com/di-acc.jpg

That one is a fake photo. Debunk

The one displayed on CBS was from the side and black and white.
33 posted on 04/21/2004 8:10:12 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Leroy S. Mort
These twits are passe when CBS shamelessly lies about war and peace and the fate of millions but can't take this. Idiots all.
34 posted on 04/21/2004 8:15:13 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic RATmedia agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: Leroy S. Mort
'I would have thought CBS would have done better than this. '

Mr. Ken Wharfe, you obviously don't know CBS.

Now you do.

35 posted on 04/21/2004 8:22:38 PM PDT by NewLand ("I never knew how good Hunt's ketchup was...")
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To: Leroy S. Mort
disgusting....but it's CBS...

on a side note I think the paparazzi are the third lowest scum on the Earth....right after Lawyers and IRS employees.

36 posted on 04/21/2004 8:26:31 PM PDT by Blue Scourge (Off I go into the Wild Blue Yonder...)
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To: LimitedPowers
Actually, Woodward interviewed her in the car for 3 hours while she was dying.

She said the car crash was Bush's fault ?

37 posted on 04/21/2004 8:29:50 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: justshutupandtakeit
These twits are passe when CBS shamelessly lies about war and peace and the fate of millions but can't take this. Idiots all

This, of course, is the same CBS that created the Reagan miniseries...so they are no strangers to lies and abhorrently bad taste. Bet the liberal twits in charge are shocked they're getting push back on this too.

38 posted on 04/21/2004 8:34:47 PM PDT by highlander_UW ("Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Leroy S. Mort
10 SECONDS THAT SHAKES ENGLAND: FURY AT CBS-TV AIRING OF DYING DIANA...

How can this be true if it wasn't in Woodward's book?
39 posted on 04/21/2004 8:44:15 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (We'll be home before peace breaks out in France)
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To: Arkinsaw
"Ugly scene. here is the link if you want to look. http://www.ishipress.com/di-acc.jpg

That one is a fake photo. Debunk

The one displayed on CBS was from the side and black and white."


Then, where's the real photo?
40 posted on 04/21/2004 8:51:47 PM PDT by Poundstone
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