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Princess Diana Pics Horrify
Off with their heads!
Or at least that's what Princess Diana's family might have been thinking when CBS broadcast photos of the dying princess moments after her fatal car crash.
Family members, friends and even the British press have expressed outrage over the Tiffany network's decision to broadcast the previously unseen images during Wednesday night's 48 Hours Investigates, which probed the circumstances surrounding her death.
The two black-and-white pics in question were taken by paparazzi at the scene of the Aug. 31, 1997, car wreck in Paris that also claimed the lives of Diana's boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and chauffeur Henri Paul.
An unconscious Diana is pictured being treated by a doctor, slumped in the back seat of a car in the Alma road tunnel.
But the network insists the photos, shown only in the U.S., were within "journalistic context--an examination of the medical treatment given to Princess Diana just after the crash--and are in no way graphic or exploitative," according to a statement from CBS.
The offending photos, taken from a confidential French government report, were included along with an interview with the first doctor to treat Diana on the scene to dispel some of the rumors and allegations surrounding her death, the network says.
That appears to be of little consolation to Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, who issued a statement saying, "Lord Spencer and his family are shocked and sickened by CBS' actions."
Ditto Fayed's father, who labeled CBS' decision to broadcast the images "disgraceful and insensitive."
CBS doesn't care about "the appalling effect of showing images of murder victims," said Fayed, who's openly suspected that Diana and his son were the victims of a professional hit job.
In 1997, investigators labeled the crash an accident caused by the chauffeur who was allegedly speeding while under the influence. A formal probe launched by the royal coroner in January has also failed to validate any conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair labeled the move to broadcast the photos distasteful and said it could cause "distress to her family."
Others were not quite so subtle in their criticism.
"Dying Di Pics TV Shocker" screamed the headline in London's Sun, followed by a story that described the photos as "sickening," "horrific" and "macabre."
"Fury as TV Shows Dying Diana," read the Daily Mail's coverage, describing friends of the late princess as "distraught" over the photos that would undoubtedly "horrify" Princes William and Harry.
There's been no official reaction from the royal family.
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