(Old ask from last week)
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/meghan-markle-is-going-royal-can-her-friends-come-too
AHPF did a write up on it: https://anonymoushouseplantfan.tumblr.com/post/173262403866/meghan-markle-is-going-royalcan-her-friends-come
I’m not as familiar with Shinan’s writings as I
am with Lainey’s. I’ve only read him a few times. Generally, my impression of him is that he’s smarter than Lainey and doesn’t need to fan-girl over a celebrity in order to write about them.
I don’t disagree with much of what AHPF wrote about it except regarding Lainey’s usage of “Harry-era” friends.
I’m not convinced Lainey realizes or is going to write about how Megs uses and ditches people. Ever. It seems to me that Lainey is just dividing Megs life into pre-Harry and with-Harry. Lainey isn’t planning on there being a post-Harry at this point because she sure as hell hasn’t written about or alluded to it. All you have to do is go back and look at Lainey’s post from last December on Meghan Markle’s “friend problem.”
Lainey didn’t write at all about how Megs had no problem ditching her friend of 30 years. Her closing was “What is the friend’s end game?”
So from the get-go Lainey was out to blame the UK press and not looking deeper for why Meg’s friends wanted to sell her out to the press. I can’t recall seeing that change even now with all the shenanigans her father did with the press to get an invite. Lainey was blaming the “rogue relative” who supposedly doesn’t know anything, yet never discussing that her father was getting papped while having his measurements done outside a building in broad daylight.
Lainey clearly knows that Megs has a media strategy, but she doesn’t write it out for her readers. AT ALL. I remember listening to one of Lainey’s podcasts shortly after the engagement was announced, and I thought this exchange was interesting. (It starts at the 1:03 mark.)
Lainey: “If she is the strategist that I
think she is, and this week she’s certainly shown us that there is some game
here. That she may not in her role as a celebrity in Hollywood in show business
been able to exercise. She is certainly using that in the full force right now.
The interview was masterfully played. Their first walkabout was excellent….It’s
only been a week, but she’s killed it. She’s shown us that there were so many
sides to her that we didn’t know that we couldn’t have anticipated. Given that,
what you said a few minutes ago, I feel like she would have been laying the
ground work herself too….
Duana: Do you think she wiggled out of her
tweeting & promotional duties for season 7?
Lainey: One hundred percent.
But has Lainey written about how–coincidence or conspiracy–Megs is always releasing more wedding information every time anything remotely damaging is coming out in the UK press these days? Nope. And I don’t expect her to write anything like that until this relationship between Harry and Megs goes belly-up. At that point, Lainey will write some sort of retrospective, but she’s not going to write the details most people will want to know about and can get elsewhere.
I don’t read Shinan’s column, but he seems much smarter than Lainey in what he said. Megs used her boyfriend to network:
She used Jessica Mulroney:
And he noticed that Megs is truly out for herself:
A lone-ranging shape shifter, eh? Sounds totally trustworthy, right?
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