Duchess Meghan
The Sun regrets hateful column
The newspaper “The Sun” apologizes for an opinion article by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson about Duchess Meghan.
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The British tabloid “The Sun” apologizes for a column by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson about Duchess Meghan.
Last week, a column by British TV star Jeremy Clarkson (62) caused outrage in Great Britain. In an opinion article published by the newspaper “The Sun”, the moderator (“Top Gear”) approached Prince Harry’s (38) wife Duchess Meghan (41) in a way that many people on the island found hateful and misogynistic. Among other things, Clarkson wrote in his guest post: “I hate Meghan”. The newspaper “The Sun” has now publicly apologized for the said opinion.
“We are sincerely sorry”
“We at The Sun regret the publication of this article and we are truly sorry,” according to a statement published on the website of the British newspaper. Clarkson’s article was removed from both the website and the tabloid’s archives. The publisher recognized “that freedom of expression also comes with responsibility”.
Hate article triggers record number of complaints
As “The Guardian” reported on Tuesday, among other things, the British Press Council received well over 17,000 complaints in response to Clarkson’s article about Duchess Meghan. This is a record: never before have so many complaints been received about a single post. Rather, only around 14,000 complaints were made for the entire year 2021.
In one of the play’s most outrageous passages, Clarkson wrote that he “dreams of the day when [Herzogin Meghan] being paraded naked through every city in Britain while the crowd shouted ‘Shame!’ shouts and throws excrement at them”. The moderator, known as a provocateur, had this passage in a tweet described as an “awkward reference to a scene from the series ‘Game of Thrones'”. Clarkson apologized in his tweet for the pain he caused and vowed to be more careful in the future.