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Yet the thing is that it is a very accurate satire of how a tabloid newspaper or magazine works in terms of its editorial style and the pressures placed on its reporting staff. If Diamond Tiara is somewhat horrifying in this episode, it is because we're seeing the worst part of the real world news media reflected in a pretty pink pony. There is a certain degree of conceptual collision between the cute character and the all-too-human behaviour as a result that makes it that much harder to process what we see on screen.

On the subject of DT, I wonder if her father taught her to be so aggressive in business or was she just doing what she thought she needed to do to make the newsletter successful based on a wrong understanding of how Filthy Rich does business.