Tabloids zoom in on ‘ashen-faced’ Gareth Bale
News that Gareth Bale’s “bother-in-law” has died is surely a shock for his loved ones. The Mail says Real Madrid and Wales footballer Bale and his fiancee Emma have been left “devastated” by a “suspected family suicide”. Emma’s sister’s partner Alexander Williams has been found dead.
Tastefully, the paper buys paparazzi photos to best illustrate Bale’s pain.
Gareth Bale arrives for training ashen-faced after he receives devastating news of brother-in-law’s sudden death https://t.co/VExP029aFk pic.twitter.com/JOQUjVbWea
— MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) November 13, 2017
The Mirror is not far off invading Bale’s grief, using the same photo to ooze: “Real Madrid star Gareth Bale looks pained s he turns up for training after shock family death”.
Pathetic stuff.
And worth revisiting the Mail’s pledge of 8 September 1997, eight days after the death of Princess Diana:
“Mail leads the way in banning paparazzi pictures.
“Mail leads the way in banning paparazzi pictures.” Here are the opening paragraphs to the article below that heading:
“The proprietor of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard announced last night that his papers will not in future purchase pictures taken by paparazzi
Viscount Rothermere, chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc said: ‘I am, and always have been, an admirer of Diana, Princess of Wales, and nagged my editors to protect her so far as they could against her powerful enemies.
In view of Earl Spencer’s strong words and my own sense of outrage, I have instructed my editors no ‘paparazzi’ pictures are to be purchased without my knowledge and consent.'”
Plus ca change, as they say in Paris, Madrid, London…
Posted: 14th, November 2017 | In: News, Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
