Phil Hall, former editor of News of the World, Britain’s largest-selling newspaper, who now runs a public relations company, was interviewed for an ITV documentary for the 10th anniversary of that Paris tragedy.

"I felt huge responsibility for what happened and I think everyone in the media did....My view is that if the paparazzi hadn’t been following her the car wouldn’t have been speeding and, you know, the accident may never have happened."

This week’s Newsweek magazine has Princess Diana on its cover. It is a review piece of yet another book, "Diana Chronicles." Written by journalist Tina Brown, here is Newsweek on Tina Brown’s book:

On Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed, Brown wrote, [Diana] died because four men in Al Fayed’s empire weren’t looking after her security: 1) Dodi, whose plans were as chaotic as he was. 2) Al Fayed, who approved his son’s cockamamie notion of using Henri Paul, the acting head of security at his Ritz Hotel, to drive them instead of a qualified chauffeur. 3) Henri Paul who was found to be concealing a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit. 4) Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, another Fayed employee, who did not ensure that the princess wore a seat belt. Brown concludes: "Little wonder that Mohamed Al Fayed’s storm of regret at the loss of his son has been so volcanic in its repercussions of blame."

Diana, the princess-divorcee, according to Brown, was also plotting publicity coups to upstage her rival, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Diana timed her non-too-discreet escapade aboard the Fayed yacht to coincide with a birthday party Charles was giving for his mistress, Camilla, at his Highgrove estate. Diana…allowing the paparazzi to photograph her in a tiger-striped one-piece as she dove off the boat. She even connived with photographers so they could capture the famous telephoto picture of her kissing Dodi out in the water off Corsica, a shot that earned that photographer some $500,000.

That kind of money brings to mind those photos I took inside the Marcos home in Hawaii the first day of his wake. The Makiki Heights Drive was lined with vans of international media, but they were not allowed in. I was invited in. Now and then, I walked out to fax articles to my paper, the San Francisco Philippine Chronicle and have films developed. Mrs. Marcos gave only one media interview during those first few days. I did the interview.

Having promised those who allowed me in that I would not publish any picture, I was not about to sell any no matter at what price. I did not need nor want that kind of money. But what about photographer/paparazzi whose livelihood is selling pictures and have families to support?

They who were outside the Marcos gate would beg me to let them see the pictures I had developed. They offered me progressively higher amounts to sell them a picture or two of the altar and coffin. They couldn’t believe that I could not be tempted by the quantity of dollars they were offering. I showed them the pictures, but I was prompt to get my pictures back.

"They" were international broadcast and print media, AP, UPI, AFP, Reuters, that the Marcoses would not allow in.