{"id":1972,"date":"2014-05-29T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2014-05-29T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:30:00","slug":"british-press-maintains-kate-photo-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-press-maintains-kate-photo-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"British press maintains Kate photo blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Kate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1973\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Kate.jpg\" alt=\"Kate\" width=\"445\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Kate.jpg 445w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Kate-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a>The British media maintained a blackout Wednesday on an offending photograph of Prince William\u2019s wife Kate, despite the picture being used in other countries.<br \/>\nOne of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Australian newspapers published the photograph on Wednesday, saying it was refusing to follow the \u201cridiculous\u201d ban imposed by the British press. The Sydney Daily Telegraph published the photograph the day after Germany\u2019s biggest-selling newspaper, Bild, became the first publication to use the image.<br \/>\nIn Bild the photograph was accompanied by a caption declaring that the future queen had a \u201cbeautiful bum.\u201d It shows the Duchess of Cambridge\u2019s blue and white summer dress lifted by a gust of wind when the royal couple got out of a helicopter in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.<br \/>\nThe British press initially reacted with outrage to Bild, with the Daily Mail calling it \u201ca breach of privacy\u201d while blasting the \u201ccrude\u201d caption that appeared alongside.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the Daily Mail took a different approach, publishing the picture with the offending area pixellated alongside a piece by Australian-born columnist Amanda Platell urging Kate to dress differently to avoid \u201canother embarrassing wardrobe malfunction.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Times\u2019 columnist Carol Midgley meanwhile described the decision by foreign newspapers to use the picture as \u201csleazy and creepy\u201d and described the fascination as perplexing \u201cas if people somehow expected to find something else under (her skirt).\u201d<br \/>\nThe image was widely available on the Internet and Twitter.<br \/>\nThe official line from the royal family was a resounding no comment.<br \/>\nThe publication of the photograph raises fresh questions about the royal family\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-press-maintains-kate-photo-blackout\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British media maintained a blackout Wednesday on an offending photograph of Prince William\u2019s wife Kate, despite the picture being used in other countries. One of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Australian newspapers published the photograph on Wednesday, saying it was refusing to follow the \u201cridiculous\u201d ban imposed by the British press. The Sydney Daily Telegraph published the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}