Why ‘Spare’ Is About a Much-Needed Media Reform

I usually write about things that moved me right after I experienced them. Strike while it’s hot, method style. With ‘Spare’, I wanted to read it at my own pace and observe the noise before I would offer my opinion.

It’s unchanged.

A discourse about Prince Harry and his family, although it amuses us endlessly, is really about a much-needed media reform. Since his family is in cahoots with tabloids, they’re automatically loaded onto Harry’s takedown train.

To the superficial eye, the Oprah Interview, Netflix documentary, and the release of ‘Spare’ seems like it’s about Battle Royale between Harry and his family. Many would characterize it as an internal struggle between relatives, racism, and misogyny in the British Court; and for those not thinking with their heads: Royal outlaws who want to make money from their titles.

This is fairly simple to decipher. Harry is not trying to take the monarchy down. Harry is trying to take down the British (Tabloid) Press, and they are decades overdue for a takedown. And the people who collude with tabloids, in this case - his family, well, he’s taking those too.