Why the US media has a very different take on Meghan and Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey
Dr Christine Harlen, lecturer in US Politics and International Political Economy at the University of Leeds, writes on the American view of the Meghan and Harry interviewThe US media have been quite favourable towards Oprah Winfrey’s interview with the Sussexes, even criticising the British media for being hostile towards it. Why are Americans viewing the story differently?First of all, in the US the interview is being treated as an entertainment news story: Americans are judging the royal family more as a famous family than as a national institution.