Well let's have a think about that. First, in this country the major television companies are tightly regulated in a way that the tabloids are patently not. Blatant right- or left-wing bias is not tolerated, for example. Second, my taxes help to buoy up the royals. I have a right to be interested in what they get up to. My responsibility is to choose my sources of information carefully. Everybody on this thread who is talking about the royals has had to resort to the media to inform themselves. There is no other way. The interviews we are discussing here, namely the Bashir one and the Oprah one, were carefully constructed and conducted in measured tones. Whether they are valid and relevant documents is moot, but that much is clear. The coverage of the royals in the tabloids is routinely sycophantic to one "side" and excoriating to the other (the "sides" may or may not be the invention of the tabloids, but they are certainly exaggerated in the way the imagined confrontations are reported). It's about selling papers, not giving a carefully-balanced account of issues in the royal family. And the royals are fully complicit. Harry can whinge all he likes about the tabloids, but he is currently exploiting the tabloid hunger for royal titbits in the US to make his living. It's what you do if you are one of 'em. So whether we should have watched Oprah or not...dunno really. It wasn't quite the Daily Mail, was it?