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'''Grief porn''' is a ] ] expression often used to describe a hyper-attention, intrusive ] and "gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy".<ref name=OB>{{cite web | title=Boo hoo, said the crocodile | url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2005/04/07/boo_hoo_said_th.html | work=ObserverBlog | publisher=The Guardian | date= | accessdate=2009-06-02}}</ref> It is usually used to describe the behavior of the ] in the wake of a tragedy. It is distinct from '']'' in that it describes a forced or artificial commiseration in response to unfortunate events, whereas the latter refers to a joy at the misfortune of others. Commentators have noted that the distinction can be blurred by the ] and its need to produce news stories. |
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== Origin of usage == |
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The term was reportedly first coined by Robert Yates, an assistant editor for '']'' in a news conference on April 7, 2005. Described as the following: |
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{{cquote|''Grief Porn''. (n.) Gratification derived from a tenuous connection to the misfortunes of others; the gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy; getting off on really bad news.<ref name=OB />}} |
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Yates claimed that the phenomenon was first noticed in the media frenzy that followed the death of ] and the media frenzy that occurred afterwards. He further noted that it usually occurs in times of national mourning and international disaster, and commented dryly that it primarily affects people working in media.<ref name="OB" />}} |
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] defines grief porn as "a form of masturbatory frenzy engaged in by the media and politicians when there is some form of disaster. It exploits the basic voyeuristic nature of humans who get their rocks off by feeling good by looking at the suffering of others".<ref>{{cite web | title=Grief porn | url=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grief%20porn | work=Definitions | publisher=Urban Dictionary | date= | accessdate=2009-06-02}}</ref> Carol Sarler, speaking as a guest columnist for ], sarcastically notes that "this new and peculiar pornography of grief" is sometimes called a 'tribute', "the cruder truth is that ersatz grief is now the new pornography; like the worst of hard-core, it is stimulus by proxy, voyeuristically piggy-backing upon that which might otherwise be deemed personal and private, for no better reason than frisson and the quickening of an otherwise jaded pulse.<ref name="NewType">{{cite web | author=Carol Sarler | title=This new and peculiar pornography of grief | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2402693.ece | work=Comment | publisher=TimesOnline | date=7 September, 2007 | accessdate=2009-06-02}}</ref> |
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''The Times's'' ], defines the term as "a rather tasteless fascination with other people's disasters and a sentimentalism that is out of place"<ref name="Finkelstein">{{cite web | author=Daniel Finkelstein | title=Can you solve the Madeleine McCann case? | url=http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2007/09/why-are-we-rive.html | work=Comment Central | publisher=Times Onlie | date= | accessdate=2009-06-02}}</ref>, but considers it misapplied at times. Using the example of the ] a four-year-old child who went missing while on holiday with her parents, Finkelstein theorizes that "we don't follow the McCann case because we are grief junkies. Most of us follow it because we fancy ourselves as ].<ref name="Finkelstein"/> |
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