Remember Princess Diana, Boycott
the Tabloids

Media Release #97-151

Contact:

Peter Trapasso
Webmaster
Xcentrix zine
Phone: 415-392-4835
E-Mail: xcentrix@ricochet.net
http://www.xcentrix.com

September 2, 1997

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(San Francisco,CA) - Several web sites join together
to boycott the tabloids.

Four sites in particular:
Princess Diana's Death - The Tragedy That Didn't
Have to Happen
(http://home.interpath.net/dbailey/diana/),
STOP THE PAPARAZZI!
(http://www.meer.net/~walterh/privacy.html),
Remember Diana, Princess of Wales
(http://www.gargaro.com/diana.html) and
Princess Diana Memorial
(http://www.xcentrix.com/diana.htm)
provide a united front. These sites have been up since
shortly after the tragedy was made public, early Sunday
morning. The sites have received thousands of visitors
and hundreds of emails expressing condolences. The
information presented serves to allow the world to
voice it's opinion to the tabloids. We encourage stores
not to carry the tabloids.

We feel that the behavior of the photographers which
took place in the chase and perhaps ultimately caused
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed's death in Paris, France
blatantly disregarded those professional and personal
courtesies that are normally extended. Further, we feel
that this accident reveals the extent to which some
photographers will go to get a picture.

We assert that Tabloid papers fuel this fire by paying
large sums of money for photographs of celebrities.
This in turn causes dangerous behavior by freelance
photographers who are intent on pocketing the
potentially sizable sums of money that can be earned
by taking especially personal and/or embarrassing
pictures of the celebrity.

In response to the events that transpired to cause
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed's death, we propose a
boycott of the Tabloid papers which contributed to this
dangerous and ultimately fatal situation. Further, this
boycott would target any publications which choose to
purchase the rights to print the photographs shot by
the photographers chasing Princess Diana's car during
the chase or of the accident immediately afterward,
such as Germany's Bild Zeitung.

Although some have suggested that the blame of the
accident should be put on the driver, who allegedly had
a blood alcohol level over the legal limit in France, we
feel that this accident still would not have occurred had
the photographers not given chase.

We feel that any high-profile person who is obeying
the laws and is attempting to have private time to
themselves either at home, or away from home, should
have the right to limit the extent to which
photographers can pursue and take pictures of that
person. Although we disagree on the course of action
to promote this idea, we feel outraged that so little
civility has been shown by the photographers in
question.

We encourage a timely and thorough investigation into
this matter and request that any person who might
have contributed to the accident which claimed
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed's life are prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the laws which have been broken.