Princess Diana The Mourning After

In Diana The Mourning After Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of a nations grief tries to uncover the few voices of sanity that cut against the grain of contrived hysteria His findings suggested that the collective hordes of emotive Dianaphiles sobbing in the streets were not only encouraged but emulated by the media In the aftermath of Dianas death a threeline whip was enforced on newspapers and on TV selling the sainthood line wholesale The suspicion was that journalists like the public greeted the death as a chance to wax emotional in print as a change from the customary knowing cynicism to wheel out all those portentous phrases theyd been saving up for the big occasion Sadly they just seemed to be showboating the eulogies laments and tearsoaked platitudes ringing risibly hollow