Yes, All the Usual Hoopla Over Princess Diana's Death Those Fateful 25 Years Ago, A Moment When Admittedly the Whole Western World Stood Still...Though Nary a Mention Ever of New Zealand's Terrific Totara, 'Big Norm' Kirk...& a Damnation with the Faintest Praise of One of the (Gargantuan) Giants of the 20th-Century, Last President of the USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), Mikhael Gorbachev...

And selfsame media still has the sheer gall and temerity to incredulously ask why so many increasingly turn from them in disgust as either purveyors of so-called 'fake news' or - to be duly charitable - folk whose 'impartiality' - 'balance' - 'fairplay' (all supposedly hallmarks of real deal journalism) are more and more held up to abjectest ridicule, scorn and derision...

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