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发表于 2012-12-28 08:32
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If the announcement of a royal pregnancy conjured up this kind of frenzy, one can only imagine the attention the royal offspring will attract in the years to come. When you are the child of the most scrutinized couple on the planet, then chances are you are going to be well scrutinized yourself. But mom and dad will want it on their terms.
“Prince William has some bad memories about his childhood, being pursued by paparazzi, and they don’t want that to be repeated, so I think certainly things have changed, and the landscape has changed. I’m not sure whether the general public actually has the same appetite for the hounding of the Royals as we might have had in 1990s. ”
History will likely play an important part in guiding, not just William and Katherine, but the press and media too.
The Prince’s earlier appearances were carefully choreographed by Charles and Diana. First and last day of term, brief poses on the slopes with his brother, glimpses of a funfair childhood. But there was the constant tension of the press and media wanting more, and some pushing the boundaries of official arrangements. Its tension persists.
“Calm down your flash lamp please.”
“The demand is globally now. The interest in China, Japan, and all this sort of emerging countries that have this interest in British Royalty. But so in that fact, the challenges are the same, and probably, even more difficult.”
His mother’s battles with the press have left William determine to protect his family’s privacy, using the courts this summer to halt publication of topless pictures of his wife. But that episode served as a reminder that in a modern media rage, control of your image and information is getting more difficult. The couple don’t just have worried about TV and newspapers, but the web and social media like Twitter. A spoof account devoted to the royal baby has already attracted thousands of followers. On top of that, these days it seems every member of the public has a camera in their hands.
“It’s gonna be very difficult to enshrine any sort of code and law because you can clearly try to control the media in this country, but you can’t control the internet. It’s completely unpoliced. Your blogs are out there. There are … everybody has a mobile phone that can take photographs, and also the American websites where these blogs go up are in fact protected by law.”
After the hounding of Diana and more recently the phone hacking scandal, the Royals will be hoping for a shift towards greater privacy. But the potential rewards for abusive photo may prove too much of temptation for some in the press and for those members of the public later compelled to take a look.
Michelle Clifford, Sky News. |
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