“What an astonishing admission of its own irrelevance for a newspaper to make.”

Prince Harry’s brush with radical transparency: you can’t stop the web — paidContent.

“Heir it is!” punned the headline. “Pics of naked Harry you’ve already seen on the internet.”

Just think about that for a second. What an astonishing admission of its own irrelevance for a newspaper to make.

And yet we’re seeing this sort of situation come up again and again in different ways as the world of secrets rubs up against the era of democratized distribution and radical transparency.

Yep, totally.

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One response to ““What an astonishing admission of its own irrelevance for a newspaper to make.””

  1. Dave Walker

    The only way it could have been more ironic, would be if they’d done the typical Murdoch thing (as per the Times) and put the photos behind a paywall…

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