{"id":1001,"date":"2005-01-13T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/13\/double-standards-and-the-press\/"},"modified":"2005-01-13T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T19:25:00","slug":"double-standards-and-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/13\/double-standards-and-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Double standards and the press."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big story in all the media is Prince Harry&#8217;s fancy dress costume. It&#8217;s taken over from all the really important stories and shows the total lack of perspective people and the media seem to have today.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the write up on the web version of The Sun (tabloid newspaper for those outside the UK):-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nBy JAMIE PYATT<br \/>\nand DUNCAN LARCOMBE<br \/>\nPRINCE Harry stunned partygoers by attending a pal\u2019s birthday bash dressed as a Nazi soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Harry, 20, wore the swastika and desert uniform of Rommel\u2019s hated German Afrika Korps to the party in West Littleton, Wilts.<\/p>\n<p>Last night he said: \u201cI am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise.\u201d\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s see how that would sound with only a very few word changes&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nBy JAMIE PYATT<br \/>\nand DUNCAN LARCOMBE<br \/>\nPRINCE Harry stunned partygoers by attending a pal\u2019s birthday bash dressed as a Hell Demon.<\/p>\n<p>Harry, 20, wore the set of horns and devil uniform of Satan\u2019s hated evil hord to the party in West Littleton, Wilts.<\/p>\n<p>Last night he said: \u201cI am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise.\u201d\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wonder how many would have cried foul of that?<\/p>\n<p>Some say that the reason for the hub-bub is that he&#8217;s the grandson of The Queen. Well, surely the second one would have been just as bad then seeing as being a potential future king and head of the Church of England he would be being insensitive about Christianity. Remember, wearing a Nazi fancy dress uniform to a fancy dress party does not mean that he condones or in any way supports the ideals of that movement. It&#8217;s not even that is shows that he is not horrified by the holocaust etc. It&#8217;s a FANCY DRESS COSTUME!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m horrified by some people&#8217;s lack of perspective and their own moral hypocracy and less so a prince&#8217;s costume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big story in all the media is Prince Harry&#8217;s fancy dress costume. It&#8217;s taken over from all the really important stories and shows the total lack of perspective people and the media seem to have today. Here&#8217;s the write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/13\/double-standards-and-the-press\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-g9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}