{"id":468,"date":"2007-09-04T18:03:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T02:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/09\/04\/princess-diana-fair-and-balanced\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T02:03:18","slug":"princess-diana-fair-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/princess-diana-fair-and-balanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana: Fair And Balanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"princessdi.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/princessdi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image469\" height=\"83\" alt=\"princessdi.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/princessdi.jpg?fit=640%2C83\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To mark the tenth anniversary of Princess Diana\u2019s car-crash, the US media indulged in the usual TV specials and analyses of the event and its significance. Predictably, there was a lot of criticism of poor Diana, as if it were her fault that people are obsessed with her.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not mad at Diana for being anorexic or media savvy or whatever it is that pisses off the anti-Diana faction. I don\u2019t worship her, either. I do own a big clock whose hours are each accompanied by a photo of Diana doing something characteristic, like holding a dying orphan. The clock has started to run slowly this week, in an obvious tribute to her.<\/p>\n<p>On my way home from San Francisco last week, I called in to a Fox News radio show whose sneering host had challenged callers to explain why Americans should be interested in Diana. I used a silly English accent and called myself \u2018Fiona.\u2019 I was so impressive that I was \u2018bumped to the front of the queue\u2019 and immediately on the air. I started blabbing about how Princess Di represented a fairy tale come true, but \u201cat the same time, she was terribly human.\u201d The Fox guy sneered some response, calling me Fiona several times. He finally gave Diana props for her nice teeth, especially in comparison with most Brits. I agreed that teeth in the UK were \u201ca bit crap.\u201d With that, Fiona was hastily dropped like a hot potato.<\/p>\n<p>Is \u2018crap\u2019 really a bad word to say on the radio? It\u2019s not like I called anyone a fag or nigger, for god sake! My husband rebuked me for using the word \u2018crap,\u2019 just as he still rebukes me for the time I called my boss a cunt. I don\u2019t see any problem with either word, and that\u2019s the truth. Fuck!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, let us take comfort in the word \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=dianafication\" target=\"_blank\">Dianafication<\/a>,\u201d which is generally used to indict the British for giving in to emotionalism instead of keeping a stiff upper lip.<\/p>\n<p>Long live Princess Diana, and all the conspiracy theories about her tragic \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonnet.co.uk\/ln\/talk\/news\/diana_conspiracy_theories.html\" target=\"_blank\">accident<\/a>!&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the tenth anniversary of Princess Diana\u2019s car-crash, the US media indulged in the usual TV specials and analyses of the event and its significance. Predictably, there was a lot of criticism of poor Diana, as if it were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/princess-diana-fair-and-balanced\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,8,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-7y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}