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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
The media didn’t blow things up. The KP press team did by releasing a doctored photo and then lying about it afterwards, blaming it on Kate, then going silent for a week. You cannot release doctored photos and lie about it. Full stop.
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They’ve released a bunch of doctored photos of the royals in recent years. And they will continue to do so going forward. The press hates it, but most of the public doesn’t care. Again, this isn’t airbrushing out a rival from a political conference. They’re private pictures of the family released to the public. If media outlets have a policy against using them, then they don’t have to print them.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
The fact that KP decided to let Kate take #### for it is all on them. If they had two brain cells they’d have immediately shut it down.
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Kate and her team almost certainly OK’d the doctored photo. So once it was rumbled by the press, she did the decent thing and claimed responsibility. Which is better than throwing some communications staffer under the bus.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
It’s so weird that you and others seem so intent on somehow tying the lunatic fringe tabloids and online conspiracy theorists with mainstream media who regularly cover the royals. It’s like comparing Alex Jones and twitter conspiracy nuts with WaPo and the NYT.
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The mainstream press fury over the doctored photo was not widely shared. It was a case of the media mistaking their own interests with that of the public. And their outrage over the photo fuelled the story’s viral toxicity among conspiracy nuts.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
If they’d have said nothing, which is what every single member of the press who covers the royals expected, since they know KP and BP don’t typically bend to media pressure, no one would have expected a Kate appearance for weeks, if not longer.
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The tabloids were already working themselves into a lather before the doctored photo was released. They weren’t going to just sit back for months and refrain from speculating about Kate or trying to snap her picture. These people will stoop to anything to get coverage - bribery, phone-tapping, etc. That’s why the royal’s handlers release these sorts of pictures, to feed the hounds a morsel or two of meat.