Diana: Let It Be!

Enough, already, with the coverage of the anniversary of Diana's death.

I remember being awakened in the middle of the night, on the day she died. I was responsible for our online news coverage as it would appear on a major partner's website, and it was that partner who called and woke me. We shook our heads (figuratively speaking) at the senseless tragedy, and we arranged the coverage.

Since then, though, Diana's "celebrity" has grown, though her newsworthiness really has not. So, on the anniversary, we are being given breathless report after breathless report - leading the newscasts, which is ridiculous, with reports about Diana, and, perhaps with even less justification, about who was invited to ceremonies and who was not.

Enough. I am no fan of celebrity news, and this kind of phony "news" about celebrities who died ten years ago makes me hit the "off" switch. Isn't there SOME story more worthy of leading the news today?