30 Jun A veteran speaks out against grief porn

One particularly noisome aspect of modern journalism is its fixation with grief porn: those maudlin public displays of grief over tragic events by people otherwise uninvolved in the lives of those actually afflicted. Grief porn is wholly a product of media pandering. it’s a way for people to feel good about themselves — and just incidentally show the world how good they are — by displaying, often in bizarre or saccharin fashion, how badly they feel about the misfortunes of strangers – especially spectacular or notorious misfortunes besetting newsworthy or celebrity strangers.

Well, here’s a rare exception: a gutsy interview by CBC Cape Breton reporter Bobby Nock with a World War II veteran who dares speak out against these unseemly displays.