(CBS/AP) Princess Diana's brother said Thursday he was "sickened" that the CBS had broadcast photos of the princess as she lay dying after a car accident — the first time a major media outlet has published pictures of the injured princess.

The British press expressed front-page outrage, while Prime Minister Tony Blair called the broadcast of the grainy black-and-white images "distasteful."

The CBS News program "48 Hours Investigates"on Wednesday night briefly showed two pictures taken by paparazzi at the scene of the Aug, 31, 1997, accident in Paris. Diana died hours later. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and chauffeur Henri Paul also were killed.

The network insisted the pictures — which showed an unconscious Diana being treated by a doctor as she lay slumped in the back of a car in the Alma road tunnel — were not graphic or exploitative.

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I wonder which of the British tabloids will be first to seize the moral low ground and publish the pictures.

The Sun, that bastion of high quality reporting, published suitably doctored photographs this morning - doubtless so that their readers could share the editors sense of outrage.