Poisonous press?

The photographers flocked around Prince Harry as he arrived at the High CourtIn England and Wales, a court that deals with particularly important cases, or those that involve large sums of money. in London. "Morning, hi guys," he said with a smile. But no one believed that he was in a friendly mood. He had come to take revenge.

Harry is one of a group of famous people suing the Daily Mail's owners. It includes the singer Sir Elton John and the actresses Sadie Frost and Liz Hurley.

They say Associated Newspapers invaded their privacy by listening in on phone calls and hiring private detectives to break into their houses. The newspaper company denies all of this.

Prince Harry says he felt paranoidBelieving, often with no solid basis, that you are being harassed, betrayed or persecuted by others. as a teenager because he could not understand how journalists were getting details of his private life. He assumed that someone close to him was talking to them behind his back. He cut off some of his friends as a result.

Another plaintiffA person who brings a case against another in court. is Doreen Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in 1993.

The Mail launched a campaign for justice. In 1997 it published photographs of five men it accused of killing him with the words "If we are wrong, let them sue us."

None of them did, and two were later convicted of his murder.

But at the same time, Baroness Lawrence says, the Mail illegally looked at her bank accounts. It wanted to see if she was receiving money from other newspapers.

Prince Harry is known to hate the tabloids because he blames them for his mother's death. Princess Diana was killed in a road accident when her car was chased through Paris by photographers.

Two years ago his wife Meghan Markle won a law suit against the Mail on Sunday for illegally publishing part of a letter she wrote to her father.

But the couple have been accused of hypocrisySaying something is bad, but also taking part in it yourself. . If they value their privacy so much, people ask, why have they accepted money for a Netflix series about their lives?

Yes: Tabloids will do anything to increase circulation. According to their accusers, they use deceit to obtain stories and sometimes just make them up. They hound celebrities and are thoroughly biased in their political reporting.

No: Without their determined reporting, public figures would get away with all sorts of wrongdoing. They make news accessible to everyone at an affordable price and also provide excellent entertainment.

Or... The Stephen LawrenceA young Black British man who was murdered in a racially motivated attack in London in 1993. case shows their upside and downside. The Daily Mail did great work in helping to bring his killers to justice, but its alleged treatment of his mother was shameful.