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Diana In The Dock: Does Privacy Matter?
Conflicting perspectives generate diverse and provocative insights”
While conflicting perspectives generate countless insights and agendas, the composer’s selection and emphasis skews the audiences’ opinions of a personality, situation or event. Thus a perspective is coloured with subjectivity, revealing the complexity of issues as controversy may arise. This is displayed in Geoffrey Robertson’s cases “Diana in the Dock: Does Privacy matter?” And “The Prisoner of Venda” and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.
Robertson's "Diana in the Dock: Does Privacy matter?" examines conflicting perspectives in relation to justice, about the law, privacy and the media. However, in presenting so his arguments are profoundly one sided as he skews his argument with language techniques to convince responders to perceive a particular end of the standpoint. In his opening chapter he utilises a central paradox in her relationship with the media - the desire to be sheltered "from the very world of tabloid editors and paparazzi which had become an essential
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Satirically and ironically he lamentably expresses the missed opportunity to cross-examine Diana to expose further invasion of privacy. Attempting to set the scales he contrastingly concludes by expressing the hope was an enactment of privacy law. Through these conflicting perspectives, we are acquainted with different aspects of the case, coming to the deduction that Robertson is attempting to use Justice as a medium to provide us with our own interpretation to the end result to the case despite outweighing one argument against the

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