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5th Jun 2007, 4:23 PM #1Pip Madeley Guest
Diana: The Witnesses In The Tunnel
Is anyone going to watch this controversial documentary on Thursday?
Channel 4 will broadcast photos of the crash that killed Princess Diana despite a plea from her sons. Prince William and Prince Harry's private secretary wrote to the channel saying they felt it would be a "gross disrespect" to their mother's memory.
Channel 4 said it decided to run the images in the documentary on Wednesday after considering the princes' concerns against wider public interest. The pictures by French photographers are of the August 1997 crash in Paris.
The letter from the princes' private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, was sent to Hamish Mykura, head of history, science and religion at Channel 4, last Friday. Mr Lowther-Pinkerton wrote: "If it were your or my mother dying in that tunnel, would we want the scene broadcast to the nation? Indeed, would the nation so want it?"
In particular, the letter asked Channel 4 to remove several images of the crashed car with Diana still inside and of a medic treating her. "These photographs, regardless of the fact that they do not actually show the princess's features, are redolent with the atmosphere and tragedy of the closing moments of her life," Mr Lowther-Pinkerton added. He said the broadcaster had been unwilling to allow the princes to view the documentary, called Diana: The Witnesses In The Tunnel, so he watched it last week and briefed the princes on its content.
Channel 4, however, deny that they refused to give the princes access to the video.
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5th Jun 2007, 7:37 PM #2Wayne Guest
Not me.
No. I don't think it's neccesary at all. Irrespective of all the controversy surrounding the circumstances of her death, How will showing these photo's enlighten anything?
Let's be honest, It's just to get people to watch it, & unfortunately there are people out there who will be happy see this kind of thing. It's the worst kind of morbid, deeply unpleasant voyeurism is you ask me.
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5th Jun 2007, 7:55 PM #3
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Well.I wasn't going to bother, but seeing as her sons have kicked up such a fuss... to quote American Dad's Steve Smith "Oh,now I HAVE to see them!"
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5th Jun 2007, 7:58 PM #4
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Mind you, I'll probably miss it anyway... 1997, I went downstairs to watch Planet of The Spiders on UK Gold, and there was a superimposed caption at the bottom of the screen saying "There is a major news story breaking, please turn to your news channel."
What were you doing?
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5th Jun 2007, 8:14 PM #5Pip Madeley Guest
Watching Planet of The Spiders on UK Gold as well. I've still that broadcast on tape.
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5th Jun 2007, 8:46 PM #6
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5th Jun 2007, 8:59 PM #7Pip Madeley Guest
Well, I was only 11.
I agree with Wayne about the issue, by the way.
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5th Jun 2007, 9:02 PM #8Captain Tancredi Guest
Channel 4 probably also get a certain amount of kudos within the television industry for refusing to bow to pressure from the royals.
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5th Jun 2007, 9:16 PM #9WhiteCrow Guest
Hmmm - I was looking at the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination last night and realised this must be the most watched "snuff" movie of all time.
I think in a similar vein, all the conspiracy theories around Diana, mainly created by "that man" mean people have a kind of curiosity. If that man could give it a rest and stop harping about all these theories, people would just leave them be.
To me the message of her death was simple "clunk click every trip". The only survivor was the one to wear a seatbelt. And please don't start me on how a secret serviceman in a Citreon 2CV top speed 90mph drove a top of the line luxury car going at 160mph off the road. Just listen to what you're saying ...
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5th Jun 2007, 11:38 PM #10
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5th Jun 2007, 11:47 PM #11WhiteCrow Guest
I hope Channel 4 will be paying the paperazi who took those photos for their shots, I don't think they've been properly paid for them yet.
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6th Jun 2007, 1:15 AM #12
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Hasn't stopped Sky News showing extracts of the show has it? (Whilst going "Ooh! These Channel 4 monsters! Showing tasteless footage of the car! That's OUR job! ooh!Ooh!")
Expect to see pictures of the show in The Sun and other papers the day after.... whilst they go "Ooh! How dare Channel 4 defy the wishes of the Princes...ooh!" etc
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6th Jun 2007, 8:24 AM #13WhiteCrow Guest
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6th Jun 2007, 9:05 AM #14WhiteCrow Guest
Just seen an argument about this on the BBC - and someone saying if you make a historical document you don't need to use ghoulish pictures.
And in fact I cannot disagree more on that point. It's hard to imagine a program on the assasination of either Kennedys without using some of that footage. Likewise you cannot cover the horror of the First World War or the Holocaust without using a certain amount of quite disturbing pictures.
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6th Jun 2007, 10:13 AM #15It's hard to imagine a program on the assasination of either Kennedys without using some of that footage. Likewise you cannot cover the horror of the First World War or the Holocaust without using a certain amount of quite disturbing pictures.
The holocaust pictures are paticularly gruesome, but they serve a purpose in that they illustrate the atrocities that were committed during the war. In that way, they are more valuable as historical evidence.
For the Diana pics, the mangled wreck of the car sufficiently shows how bad the accident in the tunnel was. We can see the concrete pillar that the car hit and we know the speed it was travelling, so its easy to surmise that it was a horrific accident. What does seeing the graphic detail tell us in addition to that?
It shows us that she was photographed to death. And that Channel 4 have decided to prostitute her corpse in the hunt for ratings.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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6th Jun 2007, 1:27 PM #16Pip Madeley Guest
To be fair to Channel 4, Diana is blurred in the images, they will not be showing her face.
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6th Jun 2007, 9:35 PM #17WhiteCrow Guest
Of course when it comes to what is good taste or not, we should defer to Prince "Dress up as an SS officer" Harry!
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6th Jun 2007, 10:10 PM #18
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