Man, it’s so suspicious that there’s been a massive uptick in attacks on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – mainly Meghan – since King Charles’s brother was arrested on February 19th. It’s almost as if a massive, international campaign has been authorized and unleashed specifically to divert attention away from the larger questions about what King Charles and Prince William knew about Prince Andrew and when and who gave Andrew the money to pay off Virginia Giuffre. Weird! I guess we’ll never know. Speaking of, Variety had an absolute humdinger of an attack piece on Prince Harry, Meghan and their Netflix contract. I hate when this kind of sh-t gets into the trade papers. The only silver lining here is that all of the smears from “unnamed sources” are soundly debunked within the Variety piece:
Netflix is done with the Sussexes: “The mood in the building is ‘We’re done,’” one Netflix insider tells Variety of the vibe on Meghan and Harry. Their bedside manner has ruffled feathers in meetings, and lackluster ratings for shows like “With Love, Meghan” have led to doubts that e-commerce is the best way for Netflix to stay in business with the couple (a Netflix insider says the ratings for “With Love” are “on par with other lifestyle series”). That’s to say nothing of Archewell’s history of what sources call “poor communication” in their dealings with the company.
Ted Sarandos is done, except he’s not: Three insiders say Netflix chief Ted Sarandos is fed up with the pair — who, per two sources, have been known to text directly with the Co-CEO about their projects, as do many A-listers who work with the streamer. Similarly, chief content officer Bela Bajaria is said to have grown weary of the Sussex pact. A Netflix spokesperson says it is “absolutely inaccurate” that Sarandos and Bajaria have lost faith in the couple. “Archewell has been a thoughtful and collaborative partner, “ says Bajaria, “and we’ve really enjoyed working with Harry and Meghan. They’re deeply engaged in the storytelling process and bring a unique, global perspective that aligns with the kinds of impactful projects our members respond to.”
Sarandos will only speak to Meghan with a lawyer present, except not: Insiders at the streamer say Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, socialize frequently with Meghan and Harry and are neighbors in the star haven of Montecito, California. However, two sources insist that Sarandos recently said he would not sit for a call with the duchess unless a lawyer was present on the line (the sources were unclear if Sarandos was serious or joking). A Netflix spokesperson says it is “absolutely inaccurate” that Sarandos made the comment. “This is blatantly false. In fact, Meghan texts and speaks with Mr. Sarandos regularly, and has been to his home, sans lawyers,” says Sussex attorney Michael J. Kump in a letter to Variety. regarding this story.
The “As Ever products are being given away to Netflix employees” story again: Netflix was sitting on a surplus of As Ever products, including tea and baking mixes, totaling more than $10 million in value (so much so that the company started giving inventory to employees for free, putting the goods on card tables in various office buildings. An Archewell spokesperson says giveaways from sample closets are standard practice at studios).
In 2020, the Sussexes took meetings with Disney, Apple, Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal: David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, was especially keen to land Meghan and Harry, a source familiar with the executive says of that time (a rep for Zaslav did not return a request for comment). Sarandos, fiercely competitive, swooped in and signed them to an exclusive arrangement over a five-year term. Reported numbers for the deal vary from $30 million to north of $100 million, but two sources peg the figure at roughly $60 million. Netflix announced the partnership in September 2020 with fanfare and immediately got to work setting the stage for the docuseries “Harry & Meghan.”
Netflix was shocked by the 2022 Oprah interview! While nobody at Netflix has suggested that the Sussexes violated any of the terms of their agreement, which allows the couple to engage in projects in other arenas and participate in interviews for other distribution outlets, many at the streamer were annoyed by the lack of communication. Sources say that the company only discovered at the last minute that the Sussexes would sit with Winfrey and share intimate, headline-grabbing details of their lives. A Sussex spokesperson says it is “categorically false” that Neflix was unaware of the Winfrey interview. Regarding their deal and its exclusivity, the representative adds that “Netflix and Archewell had legal counsel involved to oversee the evolution of the deal, as is common practice for any deal changes in Hollywood.” Still in the honeymoon phase, Netflix leadership ultimately did not interfere with the broadcast, which delivered a massive 17.1 million linear viewers for CBS.
Meghan’s representation at WME: Meghan signed with talent agency WME in April 2023, in hopes of burnishing her profile in the business. Agency sources say, however, that her primary focus was building As Ever. Within three months of Meghan becoming a client, key members of the team assembled to represent her dropped off the account (Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and the Kardashian whisperer Brad Slater). The agency still represents the duchess and Archewell Productions, and her team includes Jill Smoller (an architect of the Serena Williams empire).
Netflix people hate doing Zoom calls with the Sussexes: The Sussexes’ bedside manner was not well received by some inside the streamer. Insiders say that Meghan has long conveyed that Hollywood is her domain. In virtual and in-person meetings with partners, she tends to talk over or recast Prince Harry’s thoughts, sometimes while he is mid-sentence, sources say (usually preceded by a touch to the arm or thigh). Meghan’s lawyer Kump, in his letter to Variety, says this assertion “seems calculated to play into the misogynistic characterization of her bossing her husband around.” Prince Harry, meanwhile, attests that this is “categorically false.”
Meghan sometimes disappears during video conferences: Meghan also had odd methods of providing feedback, according to three sources. She was known to “disappear” for long periods during Zoom calls, the sources say. Later, Netflix teams like the marketing department would be informed that her absence was due to her being offended by something that was said. Kump says that Meghan “works from home, is the mother of young children aged 4 and 6, and often encounters (as many parents who work from home do) children who enter the space unexpectedly during a meeting. Independent of being a parent who works from home, Meghan is also conscious of shielding her team from the distraction of children. Nearly all professionals can attest to needing to turn off the audio or camera during a virtual meeting at some point during many hours of virtual business calls.”
I’ve joked for years about the British media’s “Netflix sources,” arguing that it’s always a neighbor’s cousin’s hairstylist’s mother-in-law who “works at Netflix” and “swears that everyone there hates Meghan.” Here’s the thing though – while I absolutely believe that the Sussexes still have a lot of support from Ted Sarandos and Bela Bajaria, it’s increasingly clear that some people within the Netflix campus have their knives out for Harry and Meghan (mostly Meghan). Some of this stuff appearing in a trade paper says to me that there ARE Netflix employees who regularly leak lies and ridiculous rumors to the tabloids and trade papers. And that’s a legit problem, and I’m glad Meghan and Harry’s team are dealing with it the best they can. The stuff about Meghan leaving video conferences and all of the bullsh-t about Meghan’s manner in meetings… that’s coming from inside the Netflix house. I’m also super-curious about what’s really happening at WME re: Meghan’s representation.
As for the rest of it… what a crazy hit job. And for what? What does it really matter at this point? “Netflix is mad about As Ever!” Okay, and? Meghan’s in firm control of her brand now, so either it will succeed or it won’t. Why all the hand-wringing from Netflix insiders? “Netflix gave millions of dollars to Harry and Meghan for an exclusive docuseries!” Yeah, and the Sussexes delivered and it was one of the most-watched docuseries in Netflix’s history. BUT THERE WAS DRAMA BEHIND THE SCENES! Again, why are you re-litigating a success from three years ago?
Photos courtesy of Netflix.
This is the same trade paper that tried to say Sinners was a flop when it first opened so I don’t trust anything they say. I also think some of these unnamed sources are mad because they want more royal dirt and they probably are rejecting a lot of “suggestions”
Almost all the American entertainment industry trade papers are owned by Jay Penske. He’s conservative and I think training to like the Murdochs (but with Hollywood). It’s a really bad time for media consolidation here. https://www.latimes.com/la-influential/story/2024-06-16/jay-penske-mogul-hollywood-trades
I truly believe that there are no unnamed sources and Variety made up all the negative quotes to appease nefarious overlords…
I noticed Variety at least pretended to remember their journalistic standards–TWO sources told us! And they did ask for comments from the principals, where pretty much everything was negated. So what was the point? Put your bullsh*t out there, then have Netflix, Archewell, Harry & Meghan say no, no it wasn’t like that, then what? What was accomplished?
Variety has really gone downhill. Just from the excerpt, I’ve never seen an article like this. “[Named person] is frustrated with them!” Followed immediately by “[Named person] gives on-the record quote saying how much they love working with them.” “[Subject] does awful things” followed by “[Subject’s lawyer] says this is a routine misogynistic smear” followed by the article including *more misogynistic smears.* Attacking her for stepping away during a meeting to get her kids is insane. It just feels like it’s designed to continue driving a wedge between her and Netflix. It’s really insidious.
Like, the only “good” thing is that they waited for M/H and others to comment and included it. It’s spectacularly bizarre. The magazine’s own lawyers must think they’re being dumb.
And this is what they’ve focused on while putting a Kardashian (or Jenner? I never know) on the cover and limited their Hollywood reporting (and post-Oscar party?) because the editor doesn’t understand it. Same editor that thought hiring Nuzzi was a fantastic idea. This doesn’t reveal anything except people really, really love attacking Meghan. Like, I assumed the head(?) of WME wasn’t staying on her account day to day. She’s building a food and wine business.
It’s exhausting, and it’s meant to be exhausting.
It is a truly bizarre article. I’ve never seen anything like it either.
@calliope are you conflating Vanity Fair and Variety? Nuzzi did not work at Variety, and VF downsized their Oscar party…
Don’t pay attention to Andrew shriek the royal sympathizers. What about what harry and Meghan do. And didn’t keen tap scooters leg when she spoke of his love for cider. They are describing the wrong couple.
I’m sorry but this is ridiculous. What is it with these exposes every single year? This is overkill right? Not just me reacting as a Sussex fan? I don’t see reporting to this extent about anyone else in Hollywood, and I refuse to believe there isn’t stuff and growing pains behind the scenes for other celebrities, their companies and everything else. I think Kaiser is right about the Netflix employees because it’s starting to feel like there’s legitimate anger they aren’t unhappy and failures and it’s not just the British media.
There’s no reason for The Times, Wall Street Journal, Variety, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter and more to write articles several times a year about this couple like they are Jeff Bezos or Bari Weiss, and their actions control the livelihoods and information received by large swathes of the population.
The level of media scrutiny, that they receive, and I don’t just mean from the British media is unhinged. You would think that Harry and Meghan controlled global policy, or were well known abusers. It literally is not that F-ing serious to justify this level of continuous investigation. Do you really give a shit in the scheme of things how much jam Meghan sells? I know I don’t care at all how much lipstick Rihanna sells, or how many body shapers Kim Kardashian sells. They don’t care this much to this degree about ANY one else.
All that to say Harry and Meghan must be about to be booked because this is just like last year, and we saw what 2025 was like for them professionally.
It is absolutely overkill. If you look at comments to this story on social media, you have the haters rejoicing over this kind of hit job, and you have the Sussex fans pushing back on it – but then you have a lot of people in the middle who are saying things like “leave them alone” and “why is there so much hate for these two?” The smear campaign ran out of steam years ago and if the royal family thinks this story will help distract from Andrew…eh, not really.
honestly I’m surprised Variety ran it. Every single thing they say in it is debunked by either a Netflix spokesperson or the Sussex lawyer. The fact that the lawyer was responding via letter and not just a spokesperson tells me that the Sussexes are taking these hit jobs very seriously now and are involving their legal team immediately.
I think a lot of this may be from a random Netflix employee who doesn’t even necessarily hate them, they just want to feel in the know. Like the line about Meghan disappearing during a Zoom call (or turning her camera off, which are two different things) – the attorney doesnt dispute that may have happened. My guess is it happened once and now this person feels like they have inside gossip and are going to share it.
We’ve seen a variation of these articles for years and in my opinion, the proof is in the pudding – Ted Sarandos speaking very warmly about Meghan, a new contract with Netflix (Netflix didn’t have to sign anything with them again), etc. Even the part in this article that is supposed to be BAD talks about Ted and his wife going to the Sussexes house.
no one else in the industry is attacked this way for no reason and its really exhausting at this point especially when Andrew is RIGHT THERE.
Well said! And I agree, it doesn’t make sense that so many publications would be dragging the Sussexes – but they aren’t.
I think it’s worth noting that almost all of the publications you just mentioned are owned by one corporation, Penske media – Variety, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, even NYMag is owned by Vox which in turn is owned by Penske. So while it might seem like a ton of publications randomly taking pot shots at the Sussexes, the reality is more insidious. It’s one company using all of their outlets to try to create a ton of smoke. Seems like a lot of effort to me.
@Jay I actually did note that Penske was driving a lot of this last year with the very obvious media pile on about With Love, Meghan. Especially when the British media started running their hit pieces with headlines like ” Hollywood Bible” , and ” Major Hollywood trade paper”. They are absolutely laundering their criticism through multiple outlets under the same umbrella to make it seem widespread.
And the thing is people rely on the former reputation of a lot of these entities to inform them about the legitimacy of these hit pieces. They don’t know that the editors have come over from the Daily Mail, or the Sun, they just know that The Hollywood reporter said, or Deadline said. It’s the Newsweek effect.
It’s exhausting because it’s ALWAYS the same things they complain about: Meghan controls Harry, Netflix hates them but REALLY hates Meghan, Hollywood hates them, Harry does nothing, etc.. It’s the same old narrative they have been pushing for years. It’s boring. This article had pushback from people that had their name and face attached to it so I am surprised they even published it. I am glad they got their lawyers involved because this is getting old. This isn’t 2018 or 2019, these stories don’t hit anymore. The world is in a completely different place and everyone knows this is a distraction from Andrew being a pedo.
Well, in the past, the “reason” was money and engagement, but what value is there in bashing H&M now? On the face of it, the current arguments make no sense. They’re doing the royal family’s bidding to cover for Andrew? What value does the RF have to Variety? Variety has gone MAGA? There are so many more direct ways to appeal to MAGA than bashing H&M. And why would a trade publication that represents an industry that mostly hates Trump want to cater to MAGA anyway?
It’s all Jay Penske? But why? He’s a Trump supporter, he hates black people, he’s hoovered up all the entertainment media – ok, but how does trashing H&M serve his purposes? They’re not a threat to him, he doesn’t need the momentary income from a bunch of clicks and if he has something to hide, H&M aren’t the people to cover it.
And it continues to get a big shrug out of me because WHO ELSE do these outlets write about in this way. It all has a big whiff of “who does she think she is” and “how dare she.” Until you write regular pieces about the nuances of Reese Witherspoon on a Zoom call (for example, no shade to Reese), I’m not interested in the pearl clutching used to smear Meghan. Like Kaiser said, “Yes, and…”
My vibe is the same. Shrug. Everything in here from a source is then denied by someone on record. Is there someone from Netflix who doesn’t like that Meghan can’t be seen the whole time during a zoom meeting? Okaaay, sorry for them. But so what?
Exactly. I’ve never seen reporting about how close Shonda Rimes or Adam Sandler is to Ted Sarandos, discussions about production meetings with Ryan Murphy, or obsession over the numbers for Higher Ground productions. In the scheme of things why is there this much investment in whether or not they are successful? Is this something that is deserving of obsessive media reporting every quarter?
And people are absolutely correct, they spent much of this time last year being in their feelings about Ryan Coogler’s production deal and having total ownership of his IP. And rushed to tell us how that was a bad thing, and Sinner’s wasn’t good anyway, and someone who had only directed four other movies ” didn’t deserve” a deal like that( even though those four movies had a combined box office gross of over 1.5 billion dollars). There’s a pattern.
The Penske’s own Variety, THR and other publications and are maga sycophants. They are not just racist but especially anti-Black. But that’s the entertainment business as a whole so… I’m sick and disgusting by it all and am glad that Harry and Meghan are pushing back on the lies. What a shame to use the power of media to tear down people instead of helping to build up the world community as a whole. Truly shameful.
Yup, Variety has become a complete joke. The huge preference for white men and more white men is leading to garbage.
These trade papers are doing WAY too much, and I no longer think that it is just to cover up the Andrew criminal stories. Someone in the royal family is desperate to distract from information that is slowly drip-feeding out into the public domain. Perhaps the increasing speculation about the separation between William and Kate and the recent stupid cleanup attempts? It’s like pigeon-flinch all over again. This has Kensington Palace written all over it. I somehow cannot see BP being behind this. William is angry and jealous and desperate to conceal… many things which appear to be on the cusp of becoming public knowledge.
Variety is just as trashy as the UK tabloids: they essentially published an article full of lies and smears despite the people they were lying about and the Sussexes’ lawyer setting the record straight. They simply wanted to go that step further and sully their names, and it’s obvious.
My thoughts exactly after readIng the article.
Came here to say this. There’s no way this is just about Andrew. The entire world is already very much aware of his disgusting proclivities, and literally no one but his own mother and his grifting ex-wife could ever stand him in the first place, so he’s never really had any honor to be defended to such an excessive degree. This MUST be about protecting the future of the institution. A future that’s precarious enough as it is, thanks simply to the heir’s own laziness, and could likely not withstand whatever scandalous behavior William is afraid of having exposed.
At this point you would think Meghan killed someone. This is a mess. Variety is not a paper of record after the hit job they did on Sinners and continued to talk crap about. They seemed to not like Black people.
I also don’t believe Netflix people are leaking at all. This sounds like the usual ‘sources’ which are really British people who work for these publications. They are really upset she and Harry are successful. That Cookie Queens got a distributor. That Netflix has a first look deal with them (like everyone else does frankly) and she’s making money hands over fist. That they consolidated their philanthropy so they can just stop forming charities (which is smart and I don’t blame them after he Sentabale mess). They are good. I am going to ignore this since Variety got pretty much cursed out on the record.
this has KP written all over it because Peggy needs to answer for his Earthshot being funded by an Epstein client who made torture videos…that’s why we have the huge uptick in articles against the Sussex’s. He’s hoping the public and media will forget.
The york daughters now get worse press coverage than Andrew. And there are also more nasty articles about the sussexes. Anything but calling attention to Andrew who should have been turned over to the authorities years ago.
It has become fairly obobvious what they are doing when the outrage isn’t at the man who is actually in those files with photographs and video, funny how those disappeared rather quickly from media when outrage focused on the York daughters and hit pieces on the Sussex’s increased.
This BS… I want more cookie mix. As Ever ran out. They aren’t trying to dump overstock.
What a dumb article, but not so dumb when you don’t want people talking about royal sex trafficking and victim payouts and who-knew-what.
I really want more cookie mix.
Imagine publishing an article where Netflix spox and the Sussex lawyers refute everything in it. Reputable media would have killed a piece that was riddled with that.
Agree the palaces are increasingly desperate. Read that the Met is going to the US this week to pick up unredacted versions of the Epstein docs re Andrew. That must have Charles and William absolutely terrified.
And also, there have been a spate of articles recently—The Independent, Palmer in inewsoaoer, Anna Wintour, more—saying the Sussexes actually weren’t so bad and asking why are they being trashed more than Andrew. Poor Willy must be losing his warped little mind over that.
I actually wonder if variety planned this hit piece with all the usual sources and imagined that the Sussexes would not respond per usual. As in usually, they will reach out before a piece for comment and in the past the Sussexes did not respond. But this time, the Sussexes and Netflix and lawyers not only responded but refuted everything on the record and variety then had no choice but to publish it that way. Kind of took the wind out of the sails. Again, all I got from this was that someone at Netflix, not at the top, is willing to say that sometimes Meghan goes dark for zoom meetings. And so what?
Anyway, just popping back to say that As Ever has something flower related going on sale today. I may need to set an alarm lol.
I think it’s a gift box of actual flowers? I’m intrigued. I’m gonna guess it’s another collaboration which is cute.
$255!!! They look beautiful, but I can’t justify that kind of splurge.
I found this article very poorly written – like someone’s failing paper. The zoom comments are dumb and petty. Reminds me of a toddler being upset that their peas are touching their carrots on their dinner plate.
The people that write these articles and obsess over their contracts are so weird. Either they stay with Netflix and make more content or they don’t. Meghan and Harry are millionaires with billionaire friends they will be fine whatever. The obsession is bonkers.
For someone that had “sources at Netflix” talking to him it’s odd that he kept switching on the amount of Harry and Meghan’s contract with them.
I don’t know but this is just getting exhausting. Are these stories true or are the publications putting out these pieces because they will get a lot of clicks? At this point I don’t know what to believe and all Variety has done is muddy the waters.
Clicks. Getting clicks is always the answer. Find someone that people have polarizing opinions on and they will be written about a lot.
That Zoom tea is stupid. EVERYONE who works from home has to go off camera at some point. She’s got children under the age of 10 who are still quite dependent. Regardless, WFH distractions are normal and expected. I agree, that particular call is coming from inside the house. Someone does not like the power Meghan has and is trying to portray her as flaky as if she wasn’t a seasoned industry professional.
My husband goes off camera often for various reasons when he is on Zoom meetings. It’s very common lol
During the pandemic, my brother got annoyed at zoom meetings and turned his camera off and just said it didn’t work and he didn’t know what was wrong with it, lol.
At my work, for Teams meetings, we are not required to have our cameras and so I pretty much never do. If I’m leading a training I might turn it on to say hello and that’s about it, I turn it off right after that.
@Becks1: I did what your brother did! The last place I worked required everybody to be on camera & since we had dodgy VPN more often than not I just said sorry, don’t know what happened, I can’t get the camera to work!
The Zoom call anecdote is idiotic. No one ever stays on camera for entire session. It’s not possible.
I don’t believe anything in that article. It reads like the Vanity Fair hit piece. All of these Netflix employees are made up. They’re just hoping that people read the headline and form an opinion, that’s all. Harry and Meghan are being targeted again, because of all that is going on with the royal family. Let’s talk about two people who are earning a living on the own sweat, instead of a lot who are publicly funded and are up to their necks in the E files scandal. This is what it’s about. By the grace of God and with karma, that awful lot will continue to be embarrassed, every single time they are in public. I pray that their embarrassment never ends and their downfall comes soon.
I read this whole deranged piece yesterday. It was very weird how they set up one strawman argument after another only to knock them down in the same paragraph. All I could think was that Variety must be having trouble getting content because what was the point of this? And the bit about the Sussexes having bad “bedside manner” was pretty funny 🤣. Are they doctors now? Do they make house calls?
The article was very weird. It should have been spiked before publication.
I was very disappointed to see another hit piece. Someone wants to undermine their success in Hollywood. Backlash from the UK tabloids wasn’t enough. They wanted it on American soil. I’m hoping once Harry’s court case is wrapped up, there could be some kind of truce with the media. What’s going on with the court case anyway? Last I heard Elton John was up next and then I heard nothing. As more & more media is controlled by a single person, the scarier it is.
Fans of the movie Sinners know that Variety has racist bias after an article they did on its box office opening & will never let them live it down.
A lot of this was stupid & tabloidy. Like the claim about Meghan speaking over Harry? Why on earth would a trade publication care about their marriage tics? And variety kind of suggests that Meghan signed to WME to be a Hollywood star again. When their OWN reporting at the time of getting with WME was that acting wouldn’t be a focus & that they’d mainly work on business stuff , brand partnerships for her and support Archewell’s content business
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/meghan-markle-wme-hollywood-agent-1235597210/
So it’s giving following that tabloid narrative of Meghan dominating her husband & wanting to be a star. That’s confirmed by Variety using that caricature for the article.
And one of their big ‘reveals’ is Meghan going off camera during meetings. That was actually embarrassing for them. It’s just another example of the press trying to make something that everybody does, evil. It’s as dumb as tabloids doing body language reports on why Meghan blinks so much. Even that point about stock- it’s a standard and very mundane thing that studios will have sample product and give them to staff. It’s not a sign of failure. And like someone said I doubt they have $10m of stock like mixes because why isn’t the crepe mix back on sale then seeing as I doubt that type of product would have expired?
The point about no scripted projects in six years – I mean does variety know that Netflix is the one who has to order them. NETFLIX cancelled animated series project Pearl which would have been a one of their first scripted projects out of the gate & so far have only greenlit the wedding date & meet me by the lake. There was a report about a great expectations prequel Bad Manners that Archewell was working on which so far haven’t heard it’s been greenlit. So it’s not all on H&M
Anyway pretty much every anonymous claim is denied by H&M’s lawyers or Netflix spokesperson. Even the anonymous Netflix sources contradict themselves. So you wonder why Variety bothered publishing this. I think as much as there is a global misogynoir campaign against Meghan especially & the press will tend to side with powerful institutions like the royal family, H&M & their team need to do better with media relations too & get more press allies.
I agree that the caricature that they used as the visual for this article is a tell that this is a manufactured hit piece. The Hollywood Reporter also used a similar caricature. Both Penske publications.
Harry and Meghan are very very into holding the social media gaints to account regarding how they deliberately make children addicts to their platforms.
This is this why this type of articles are being written.
The case is on-going in Califonia right now between the parents who lost their children due to social media algorithms and the platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg was on the stand ( i think on monday). It was not pretty what was revealed under oath.
The others owners will also take the stand.
Prince Harry and Meghan have a write up about this court case on their Archwell Philanthropy website.
This case and ‘ THE LOST SCREEN ‘ Exibition has the billionaire cult MAD, ANGRY AND CRAZY.
Notice no media is covering this case.
The billionaire owned media is doing the job for their masters and their friends..DISTRACTION.
If all Meghan did was sit on the board of charities or corporate boards or was a brand ambassador, we’d still get these hit pieces about how they’re doing it wrong. I don’t understand what the point of this piece is. It’s like a Cliffs notes version of the Vanity Fair piece from last year. The Sussexes have produced several projects by now, a film they produced just got a distributor, and they were recently in Jordan and heading to Australia. There really is nothing controversial there but every bit of office gossip becomes scandal. I don’t know what other producers do that manes what they so stand out so much that we’re getting this annual recap of their year. Why can’t they be a bit eccentric or do things differently. I don’t understand this.
Not for nothing, the author seems to be a Murdoch guy – previously worked at NY Post/ Page Six.
This is not only a hit piece on Meghan but also on Netflix. It is as if they are threatening Netflix to let the Sussexes go or else. It is also interesting to have WB sources chiming in. On top of everything else, I think this particular hit piece is also to do with the Warner Bros/Discovery deal.
The Variety article by Matt Donnelly is a hit piece straight out of Kensington palace (work shy willy). Scooter hates his brother because H&M left and can’t be used as scapegoats to cover for prince Andrew and do his work. Scooter hates Meghan because when he stuck his finger in Meghan’s face, Meghan told him off. Willy never been told off before, much less by a woman. Matt Donnelly was paid off by the UK media (Scooter) to print what they gave him. He is the grifter. And ahhh yes! The keyboard warriors, making comments about someone they don’t know and have never met and will never meet. Jealousy is absolute.
The Kaiser writes about the royals’ shock at Andrew’s arrest, and it’s true, but they’re not worried about Andrew, they’re worried about THEMSELVES!
The arrest of the Queen’s son, the King’s brother, is a SHOCK for them. It’s crossing a line they believed was uncrossable. They’ve always considered themselves untouchable. We have no idea what crimes these palace walls and departments have committed, and no matter how terrible they may have been, they felt unpunished, but now they realize that’s not necessarily the case. I’m afraid Andrew did nothing worse than many other members of this family; he was simply “unlucky” that someone made a fuss about it. Removing Andrew from the balconies, swapping houses, and titles are just silencing the public, which is showing its increasing indignation.
It’s clear that this arrest has shocked William the most, the one whose actions are so horrific that when we learn of them, “our eyes will bleed.” He’s locked away somewhere in one of his five houses with a bottle of cider, gripped by panic and fear that they might come for him too. His terrified state is evident in his increasingly chaotic and hysterical actions: he aggressively and immediately demands the crown (the king is above the law), or at least dual power; he aggressively attacks the York and Sussex sisters—mainly Meghan—exposing them to the media like cannon fodder to keep journalists occupied and distanced from himself, himself and Epstein, himself and his terrible deeds…
Unhinged article from left field. The hit piece is for Sussex’s and probably Netflix. Powerful people want both entities to disappear.
Family Firm, Murdoch, DM, WB, they all have a stake in seeing them go down.
I fear H&M will never be free. Cruelty upon them is the point.
The abusers will do anything and say anything to try to subvert, overpower, and control.