This week's fascinating documentary about the role (or lack of it) of the paparazzi in Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed's deaths may have been painful for their families, but it didn't deserve some of the more hysterical reactions in the press.
More interesting was the fact that it seems to have split the TV industry down the middle. 53% of respondents in a Broadcast magazine poll say they thought that Channel 4 was wrong to show the programme without cuts.
I'm at a bit of a loss to know where the cuts could have been made, given how carefully the programme was treading. Presumably the poll was used as a protest vote against a channel that seems to be fast running out of friends.
Meanwhile did you notice how none of the 'ordinary' passers-by in that Paris tunnel didn't just whip out their camera-phones? Oh, hang on. Perhaps that's because they weren't invented then.
It makes you wonder what the reaction of the French police would have been if the professional paps had been joined by some citizen journalists. Would they have been rounded up too? Possibly. Would videos of the crash have been on YouTube within an instant? Certainly.
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