[lbo-talk] Diana

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At the time of the royal wedding in 1981, my Trotskyist department secretary and I went into our local in Cambridge (the Eagle, where Watson and Crick talked out the double helix and how to cheat Rosalind Franklin out of her Nobel), and nearly got ourselves lynched toasting loudly to John Ball, Winstandley, and the English Republic. jks

Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
On Fri, 9 May 2003, Carrol Cox wrote:


> There was an article either in LRB or NLR demonstrating that the
> outpouring of grief for Diana was mostly media-created and not
> participated in by a large proportion of the citizenry.

I beg to differ. The initial media reaction was scornful, and fury
against the media for its callousness towards her was one of the
leitmotifs of the popular reaction, alongside fury at the royals and the
Anglican Church for their similar initial reactions.

As for the proportion of the population involved, believe me, I was in
London at the time, and extent of the popular involvement was remarkable
and palpable. It was no more media created than the reaction to 9/11.

I wrote an article at the time about the meaning of the reaction to
Diana's death that I'll be glad to send to anyone who is interested.

Michael
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