Letter: Unfair to snap Cherie off guard

Alison Clarke
Saturday 10 May 1997 23:02 BST
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I've been trying to rationalise your use on the front page of a photograph of an exhausted Cherie Blair (4 May). I'm sure that it was your intention to show the human side of success. Given your sensitive coverage of Princess Diana's treatment at the hands of press photographers, it couldn't possibly be the case that you intended to depict Mrs Blair as vulnerable, nor try to show that this able woman does not have control over her life. Could it? I shall watch with interest.

Alison Clarke

Norwich

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