The British tabloid “The Sun” is tough in handing out. For a guest article by TV presenter Clarkson, however, the newspaper has to take a beating. He had written that he “hates” Duchess Meghan. The article garnered record complaints and has now been deleted.
The British tabloid “Sun” has apologized for a hateful article against Duchess Meghan. Last week, a column by British TV star Jeremy Clarkson caused outrage in Great Britain. The 62-year-old presenter had attacked Prince Harry’s wife, Duchess Meghan, in an opinion piece published by The Sun newspaper in a way that many Britons found hateful and misogynistic. Among other things, Clarkson wrote in his guest post: “I hate Meghan”.
The “Sun” has now publicly apologized for the said opinion. “We at The Sun regret the publication of this article and we are truly sorry,” read a statement published on the British newspaper’s website. 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”.
As “The Guardian” reported, well over 17,000 complaints were received by the British Press Council 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 most offensive passages of the play, Clarkson wrote that he “dreams of the day Duchess Meghan is paraded naked through every city in Britain while the crowd yells ‘Shame!’ shouts and throws excrement at them”. The moderator, known as a provocateur, described this passage in a tweet as an “awkward allusion 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.
