Podcast 19 - What the media wants us to think about Meghan Markle & Kate’s relationship, & Meghan and Harry’s huge charitable donation

As celebrities in the US freeze their social media accounts, joining a protest against the spread of online hate, propaganda and misinformation, I discuss how the Royal Family have not been exempt from attempts by media sources to sow division between them. Look no further then the reporting and postings on social media about the relationship between Meghan and Kate.

Comparisons were made between Meghan and Kate right from the beginning. At first, the comparison were in most cases factually correct. Say comparing the different fashion styles of the two ladies, their backgrounds, their approach to their work. However, things then turned and despite attempts to correct false reports and despite urging fans of Meghan and Kate to be moderate their posts on social media, hate and division have continued. 

Unfortunately, the constant comparisons in the press between Meghan and Kate led to factions being formed. There are the pro-Kate fans and the pro-Meghan fans. Each faction takes to social media to defend their Duchess and to post disparaging comments about the other.

The only winners in battle are of course the very same people that caused the issue in the first place. The press like nothing more then to report about what Meghan’s fans are saying about Kate, or about what Kate’s fans are saying about Meghan. The media are getting all of this fodder to report in their newspapers and online, printing loads of hateful and divisive stories and hiding behind the fans.  

On a lighter note to end the podcast, Harry and Meghan did a remarkable thing this week, matching dollar for dollar donations made in honour of their birthdays to CAMFED.

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Show written and produced by Jeanette Songolo.

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