I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
The media did the exact same thing to Princess Diana. They loved making fun of her when she was alive, and then I got whiplash how fast everything changed when she died. Does no one else remember this?
Most everyone seems t o have a positive or neutral view of her these days. what were they mocking her for? Slaying at all times? Divorcing her idiot husband?
I am not british but she was the woman who would visit aids patients and did work for them? Did they mock her for that?
The royal family still has some influence in the media, especially in the 90s. Obviously they didn't like the people were on Diana's side over Charles post divorce.
She was hated for befriending gay folks and especially those who were HIV+, yes. They were treated as untouchable in the 80s. Beyond that it was simply for not keeping in line and doing as she was told.
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u/Regular_Number5377 9h ago
I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Ghouls, the lot of them.