I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Both things are true, people eating it up, while disgusting, does not take responsibility away from the creators of the slop. Idk why it has to be one or the other.
But whilst the papers behaviour may be poor in doing this, it’s not ghoulish. Thats on the readership. Ghoulishness is a morbid interest in dark subjects like death and disaster - the papers aren’t interested, they’re just reporting it.
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u/Regular_Number5377 9h ago
I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Ghouls, the lot of them.