Duchess Meghan
Jeremy Clarkson’s hate column was sexist
Jeremy Clarkson’s column about Duchess Meghan was at times “humiliating and demeaning,” according to press regulators.
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After a large number of complaints, the British press regulator has classified a column about Duchess Meghan as discriminatory.
In December 2022, the English moderator Jeremy Clarkson (63) caused a stir with a guest article in the tabloid “The Sun”. The British Press Inspectorate (IPSO) has published Clarkson’s column in which he talks about Duchess Meghan (41) wrote, now classified as sexist. The IPSO has ruled that the post was partly written pejoratively in relation to Meghan’s gender, according to a press release.
It was found “that the imagery used by the columnist in this article was humiliating and degrading” towards Duchess Meghan, IPSO Chairman Lord Faulks said. The highly questionable contribution had not only far exceeded the limits of good taste for Meghan and her husband, Prince Harry (38). More than 25,100 complaints from readers, according to the “BBC” a new recordwere received after the hate column was published, IPSO Chief Executive Charlotte Dewar explained in the statement.
Among other things, Clarkson wrote that he hates her and dreams of the day “when [Herzogin Meghan] being paraded naked through the streets of every city in Britain while the crowd shouted ‘Shame!’ shouts and throws excrement at them”. The moderator, known as a provocateur, later apologized via Twitter and called the passage a “clumsy allusion” to a scene from the “Game of Thrones” series.
Sincere apologies or PR stunt?
Also the “Sun”, which violated editorial standards and now had to publish a summaryhad himself Apologized at the end of 2022. The article was deleted, I regret the publication and I am “sincerely sorry” for the newspaper. The tabloid’s apology was “not much more than a PR stunt,” said a spokesman for Harry and Meghan among other things, according to a report by the “Guardian” explained later. “While the public absolutely deserves the paper’s regret for the dangerous comments, we wouldn’t be in this situation if The Sun didn’t continually exploit hate, violence and misogyny for profit.”
Harry and Meghan apparently did not accept another apology from Clarkson. In January, the presenter revealed that he emailed Harry and Meghan over Christmas to apologize directly to them. A spokesman for the Sussexes said, according to the BBCthat Clarkson only addressed Harry. The couple’s rep said they needed to address a “persistent pattern” of the moderator writing this article, “spreading hateful rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy myths and misogyny.”