Look #3. Why do we watch traumatic TV?
Comfort in horror, and where to find humanity.
When I was in my early teens, I loved buying books from service stations on holidays. They had titles like World’s Biggest Mysteries, World’s Worst Disasters and World’s Greatest Serial Killers. I started at Caspar Hauser and Lord Lucan and continued to the 1977 Pan Am air crash on the tarmac in Tenerife, then 10 Rillington Place and the Moors Murders.…
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