Why British Newspapers Turned Hilary Mantel’s Intelligent Speech Into A ‘Venomous Attack’ On The Duchess Of Cambridge

“Mantel was attacking the paper doll in which newspapers have imprisoned the real Kate Middleton. … The point of Mantel’s piece was necessarily invisible to parsing in a Daily Mail news story. So a story had to be made – because here was a famous writer writing about a subject of intense interest to the paper – by missing the point.”