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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Celebrity watchers were speculating about Kate before the altered photo was released, because it’s what celebrity watchers do.
Then the media lost their minds when they discovered the picture was altered. With their shock and hand-wringing, you’d think they were dealing with falsification of important political records, instead of a picture of a woman with her kids. And when the media blew the story up, the gossip-mongerers and conspiracy kooks ran with it.
While we might expect the media to do the decent thing and issue mea culpas over their handling of this, I wouldn’t hold your breath. They know they look like a right bunch of ####s now, but they’ve already switched gears to sympathy and compassion, as though they’re not responsible at all for a mom with cancer needing to videotape a public statement about her very personal illness.
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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. 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.
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.
Whether you or I or anyone else like it they are important public figures in the UK and around the world. And that carries a certain amount of trust. When they intentionally lie to the public and mislead them, it creates controversy and mistrust. But it wasn’t Kate and Will who did this. It was the incomoetent press teams who control their public facing image.
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.
Now instead of this being a somber announcement that comes weeks earlier than she was scheduled to appear, it the unfortunate and sad finale to a week long scandal because the worlds most incompetent press team, who have a history of making tremendous blunders and bad decisions, made yet another faceplant.
I pity her for marrying into that tire fire of a family. Hopefully she makes a full recovery.