The headlines are everywhere: Was Diana murdered? The answer: No. Three investigations, one French and two British came to the same conclusion, so definitively that even Mohamed Al Fayed's legal team was forced to concede that there is not a shred of credible evidence of murder, pregnancy or conspiracy. Tina Brown lays it all out in an article on The Daily Beast; here's my favorite part:
As for sinister forces organizing the crash of the Mercedes, a conspiracy would have been beyond the capacities of all the intelligence agencies and royal masterminds in the grassy knoll of tabloid imagination: pre-knowledge that Dodi would make the last-minute decisions he did; that Henri Paul would be the driver; that Paul would be drunk and drugged; that he would not follow the most obvious route to Dodi’s apartment; that the argumentative group of paparazzi and the supposed intervening cars or motorbikes were coordinated to the last split second in their movements; that Dodi and Diana would not wear seat belts—and on and on through an infinity of variables.
So why so many headlines? Clicks, of course. It's a provocative subject and a tantalizing headline that will drive traffic to websites and morning news shows. But read (or listen) carefully and you'll learn there's not much of a story here. It's just one more media feeding frenzy for ratings.
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