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Date: 08 September 1997
By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Sorkin
Internet played big role last week in delivering news about Princess Diana's death and funeral and in creating international community of mourners; within hours of car accident that killed Diana, main news organizations with Web sites posted reports about crash along with background information about Diana and last weeks of her life; photo (L)
Date: 07 September 1997
By Seth Faison
Seth Faison
China was one of few nations where sudden death of Diana, Princess of Wales was not big news; although Chinese society is becoming more open each day, firm principles still guide what can be printed in newspapers; most media report international news straight, culled from news agencies and presented to readers in fair manner; international news offers precisely what many critics in West are asking of their own media, namely, non-sensational news reports with strict limit on celebrity gossip and other frivolity (M)
Date: 07 September 1997
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Searing eulogy by Earl Spencer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, represents enormous break with tradition and stunning indictment of way sister was treated by royal family and news media; attacks royal family in their own church and at service they planned and were attending as most distinguished guests; photos (M)
Date: 08 September 1997
By Michael Kimmelman
Michael Kimmelman
Michael Kimmelman column on paparazzi photographs in light of death of Princess Diana, for which many people blame the paparazzi, and a show of paparazzi photographs opening at Robert Miller Gllery; says the seemingly sudden, informal depicition of high-born or famous people in a public place--the essense of a paparazzi picture--can be traced in art at least to Degas's Place de la Concorde of 1975; photo (M)
Date: 08 September 1997
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
Steve Coz, who took over as editor of National Enquirer a year ago, has cut back on sensationalism as paper's circulation dropped nearly 55 percent from its peak in late 1970's; despite Coz's changes, death of Princess Diana has cast Coz into anti-tabloid frenzy in campaign being promoted by stars whom Coz now focuses on more intensely than ever; Coz says tone of The Enquirer has changed, but it will never change enough to suit some celebrities, interview; photo (L)
Date: 08 September 1997
Editorial urges New York State Legislature to allow television cameras back into courtrooms; says allowing 10-year-old experiment to lapse served public and cause of justice poorly (S)
Date: 07 September 1997
Gov Jim Edgar of Illinois vetoed bill that would restrict school administrators' powers of prior review of school newspapers' content; veto angered many civil liberties groups and brought lawyers from around country to aid of students working on Naperville Central Times, suburban high school newspaper that was forbidden to print article about school administrators who spent taxpayers' money on travel at time of budget crisis; several states have decided that student journalists should be protected, establishing laws that permit administrators to intervene only when publication uses obscenity or libelous material or invades privacy (M)
Date: 08 September 1997
By Janna Malamud Smith
Janna Smith
Op-Ed article by Janna Malamud Smith on hounding of celebrities, including late Princess Diana, by media; says our hunger for stories about other people's lives is insatiable since it allows us complex psychic pleasure; says we gratify impossible desires by identifying with celebrities, while confirming worth of our more mundane lives by judging them; photo (M)
Date: 08 September 1997
By Craig R. Whitney
Craig Whitney
Lawyers close to investigation of death of Princess Diana and two others in automobile accident in Paris say investigators are searching for driver of car who reportedly may have tried to slow down Mercedes limousine for photographers pursuing on motorcycles in way that could have caused it to go out of control (M)
Date: 07 September 1997
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
Princess Diana's final resting place is leafy island in small and sculptured lake in ancestral estate in Althorp, Northamptonshire; site is extremely remote from glare of publicity she both shunned and courted; public is excluded from burial; authorities order air-exclusion zone over estate to prevent photographers and television crews from filming area (M)