Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today Thursday May 18th 2023.

I'm John Pudhord, the editor of commentary with me is always executive editor Abe

Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi John.

And Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute and our Washington

commentary columnist Matthew Cottonetti. Hi Matt. Hi John. I never watch the evening news.

But for some reason last night I turned on the evening news at 630 and and then

flashed around and on ABC CBS and NBC the lead story breaking news breaking news. It said even

though it wasn't breaking because I've known about it several hours earlier was the supposed

car chase in which paparazzi chased former Prince Harry and former suits and deal or no deal

star Megan Markle supposedly through the streets of Manhattan on a hair raising

and spree that conjured up traumatic memories of Harry's mother Princess Diana's deadly car crash

in Paris as her as her car attempted to flee paparazzi and clearly the story is a lie.

But it was not being covered as a lie on the news because all they could really do was say

they said this happened and Eric Adams the Mayor of New York kind of said that something may have

happened but this was a car chase in which that no one really saw in which no one was injured and

which no traffic rules apparently were violated. So I have some background by the way on this.

Please. Yes. Because what everyone needs to understand about the context of this supposedly

explosive car chase is that the paparazzi who were on hire at that event are called backrid.

They are well known as what's called dial a pap these are the paparazzi that celebrities are

their people call and say hey by the way I'm going to be at this place at this time and oh my god

you should get a surprise fake candid photo of me because I'm trying to elevate my profile.

Megan Markle has always called these people any any photo you see that's that's paparazzi tends

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