Did the Media Kill Diana? - Wilson, Gerard Charles
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The author was one a multitude outraged by the media's role in the Princess of Wales's tragic death in August 1997. Like most, he thought the media had hunted her to death. Roused to indignant anger, he got to work and had a book ready for publication about eighteen months later. This present book is a reorganized, rewritten, chopped-up, added-to, and expanded version of that book with a sharpened refocus. In that first book, he was keen to explain the ideological presuppositions behind the media's reporting and to challenge who they blamed for the accident. He wanted to refute the dodgy…mehr

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The author was one a multitude outraged by the media's role in the Princess of Wales's tragic death in August 1997. Like most, he thought the media had hunted her to death. Roused to indignant anger, he got to work and had a book ready for publication about eighteen months later. This present book is a reorganized, rewritten, chopped-up, added-to, and expanded version of that book with a sharpened refocus. In that first book, he was keen to explain the ideological presuppositions behind the media's reporting and to challenge who they blamed for the accident. He wanted to refute the dodgy arguments they ran to shift blame from themselves to the public's (allegedly) vicious appetite for sensation and gossip. The subject of republicanism and the viability of monarchy in our modern world came in for extensive discussion. The aim in this new book with a new title is to examine and refute the same arguments, but to shift the emphasis from ideology to the media's motivations and purposes in their reporting of Diana's demise. Two connected happenings roused the author to revisit the Diana story. First, there was Lord Dyson's sensational report (14 May 2021) of his investigation into the BBC's handling of the accusation that Martin Bashir of the BBC Panorama program tricked Diana into giving the 1995 interview that became the scoop of the century. Second, equally important, is Prince William's address to the world on Dyson's findings. With feeling, William explained from his point of view - a unique point of view - how the BBC (and, by the implication, the rest of the media) significantly contributed to his parents' divorce and his mother's end. Bashir's interview, the BBC's inability to see and accept the deceit, and Princes William and Harry's responses are part of the Diana story. With these new developments, he proposes to round off the story of Diana's death and its causes.
Autorenporträt
After a lifetime working in the book business (mostly educational publishing) I now concentrate on my writing. One of my formative experiences was living in Holland with my Dutch wife for two and a half years. On returning to Australia, I completed a major in Dutch Language and Literature before a master's degree in philosophy. My studies and immersion in another culture and language, together with my Catholic faith, form the biggest influences on my writing. But shaping those influences are my mother and father. One could not have more principled parents. My master's thesis was on Edmund Burke whose thought permeates my writing. My preoccupations are social and cultural from a Catholic and (Burkean) conservative perspective. This reflects my acceptance of the Catholic idea of the reciprocal relationship between faith and reason. My favourite fiction authors are Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Evelyn Waugh. Evelyn Waugh's style and mastery of English have been my biggest influence - not in vain, I hope. My favourite modern non-fiction author is philosopher Roger Scruton. I spend my leisure time reading and occasionally walking along the nearby shores of Port Phillip Bay. I love opera, musicals, and the ballet (The Nutcracker is my favourite.) I enjoy fifties rock 'n' roll and forties big band. Mozart is my favourite classical composer, but I am acquiring a liking for Bach. My novels are in the genre of the 'Catholic novel'. They are in the style of Catholic novelists Evelyn Waugh, Grahame Greene, and Morris West. I deal with similar political, philosophical, and moral issues. The difference from general fiction is the assumed philosophical framework. Most modern fiction assumes a materialist framework while the Catholic novel assumes a natural law framework (See the 'Catholic Novel' page on my website.) Finally, there is always a romantic content in my stories. Love relationships are an incisive way of exploring the human person.