What price privacy?

Difficult to know whether this statement made on behalf of Prince Harry concerning the press coverage of his girlfriend will make things better or worse. I certainly feel ashamed that the media are so desperate to sell more papers or generate more viewers that they are prepared to potentially ruin a relationship to do so.  But then, as has been said before, if we readers and viewers didn't want to read or look at this stuff, they wouldn't bother to publish it, so just who are the "baddies" here? And the other side of the coin is of course the situation which existed back in the 1930s when the rest of the world knew what was going on between Edward and Mrs Simpson, but the press here decided that we should be kept in the dark.  Not straightforward, is it?