Informant38

What Prince Charles and Camilla Bowles are are failed celebrities, celebrities whose glamor isn't shiny enough, whose exploits are too mundane, and who have only alienated the God of celebrity and his angels in the media. A key to the intensity of negative reaction to their existence is how often their looks are commented on, by people whose own symmetries and aestethic values are meager. It's because the only community those people know is inside the box, the rest of the world isn't quite real anymore, and in there they're surrounded by nice-looking at worst fellow citizens, and often seem to be sitting close to beautiful and truly glamorous individuals, while those individuals act out their glamorous moments - braving danger, saving the day.
The context is as always the absolute neutrality of the media, which is now in possession of the political infrastructure of the United States and a good chunk of Britain's as well. That neutrality being a sacred principle taught to everyone, by the media itself.
So it's absurd to wonder if Charles hasn't pissed off someone in power, or threatened to, or worse; because even if he had, the media wouldn't ridicule him unless he really deserved it. Because the media is neutral, absolutely neutral - moral, but only as moral as the people it serves, whose values it reflects. Because it can only reflect the values of the people who consume it, who watch it, read it, take it in, it has no moral character of its own; because it is, ultimately and essentially, nothing but a vividly realistic reflection; the media is nothing but a mirror held up to the soul of the public, reflecting their values - it's absurd to suggest the media reflects the values of the people who own the media. Nonsense - there's no money in that, and the media are first and finally a business, even more than a service. The idea that a mirror that is also a business might distort the things it reflects is absurd. The idea - that the media is a brainwashing tool whose efficacy has been refined for decades, controlled by an invisible minority whose disdain for the people is immense - is near treason in its opposition to the common good.
The media simply reflects the values and interests of the people it serves.
Even as it spends all its time and most of its resources shaping those values. And then reflecting them back to the public again. And again. And so on.