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...people cheer? Why did a television station send cameras to film a man commiting suicide at all? There is no psychological commentary to explain the phenomenon we are exposed to every time we turn on local television news or read tabloid newspapers--the desire to get a little entertainment our of somebody else's tragedy. What explains banner headlines about parents killing their children? What explains the fact that whenever there is a shooting or a serious traffic accident the camera van from a television station often arrives before an ambulance...
...ongoing battle of British royalty vs. the press, Queen Elizabeth II has won a decisive round. After Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch's splashy London tabloid the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) ran the first installment of confessions by a former palace pantry servant, the Queen took the unprecedented step of suing Murdoch's news organization and her onetime employee for damages. In an out-of-court settlement last week, the Sun agreed to pay the $6,000 it would have given the ex-servant and he ponied up his $150 advance, all of which the Queen donated...
...Queen sues a London tabloid for punitive damages
Soon after he quit a month ago, however, Kenny supplied racy recollections to Britain's biggest daily, Rupert Murdoch's sensational tabloid, the Sun (circ. 4.2 million), for the unprincely sum of about $2,000. The first installment, splashed across two pages last week, purported to describe the "amorous antics" of the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, 23, including one putative tryst in a gallery in Windsor Castle hung with portraits of his royal ancestors. Kenny was quoted as telling the Sun: "[Andrew's] dates were always young and fanciable. He was so sure...
British readers may never learn, however, what that headline was meant to imply. Deeply angered by the increasingly tasteless and intrusive reporting of Britain's tabloid press, the royal household struck back. Within hours after the Sun's opening story hit London newsstands, palace aides representing the Queen sought, and got, a permanent injunction from Britain's High Court banning any further disclosures by Kenny, the Sun or its parent News Group Newspapers Ltd., on the ground that publication would violate the former servant's contractual pledge of secrecy. News Group halted efforts to syndicate...