Channel 4 has been branded ’sordid’ after airing images of Britain’s Princess Diana’s dying moments.
Channel 4 has been branded ’sordid’ after airing images of Britain’s Princess Diana’s dying moments. The British network ignored pleas from Diana’s sons Princes William and Harry not to screen the footage - which shows the princess receiving oxygen from paramedics while still slumped in the wreckage after the Paris car crash 10 years ago - and are now facing a fierce backlash from viewers. Many expressed their shock and anger on the Channel 4 website after ‘Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel’ was broadcast last night (06.06.07).
One viewer wrote on Channel 4’s website: ‘How on earth can showing photos of the crash be in the public interest? Only if you have a macabre sense of voyeurism. Is there no depth your sordid little production team won’t stoop to?’ Another, Sam Taylor, 24, of Grimsby, slammed the ‘insensitive’ scenes. She wrote: ‘The princes shouldn’t have to see something horrible like that on TV. I’m sure Channel 4 only used it to get publicity.’ Channel 4 bosses announced they were not going to cut the controversial scenes from the documentary because it was in the ‘public interest’ for them to be shown.
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