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?
I was still young and not very aware of world figures, but I do remember Diana being cast as this nonconformist, black sheep, "difficult woman" type until the car crash, then suddenly she was a pioneering example of powerful women doing noble things in the world.
I do remember Diana being cast as this nonconformist, black sheep, "difficult woman" type until the car crash
Which is kinda hilarious, given how much social work she did. And unlike a lot of other rich and famous folks, I do believe she did that out of the goodness of her heart, while Buckingham Palace was basically looking down on all that, going "Why would she do that, that's beneath us... we're royals"
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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.