OPINION: Two relics of late last-century media find themselves in unusual predicaments. How did we get here?
amounted to more than just an unprecedented break from royal protocols. It also seemed like an archaeological dig into the last age of print mass media.
Culturally, the image of a newsroom as a zoo goes back at least as far as 1928, when Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote the play, where the editor, Walter Burns, drove his reporters to abandon all norms of behavior in the hunt for scoops. That means the narrative trail begins before the onset of the technological tsunami that has since killed off thousands of newspapers and hollowed out all but a few of those left—that is two years before Google was born, and with Facebook and the iPhone still years away.
What’s striking about the stuff revealed in the court testimony was—whether lawless or not—its puerility, and the cynicism of the business model behind it. In the pursuit of royalty, nothing was too trivial, from Harry’s bruised wrist to tantrums from a girlfriend over his visit to a lap-dancing club. But make no mistake, this was the drivel that sold papers and on which media empires were built.
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