Criminal investigations, spectacular accidents, larceny and other scams… Many of us love news stories, but with a bad conscience. Is it a morbid taste? Aren’t they distracting us from the real news?
Historians, sociologists and philosophers have been asking these questions for a long time, because news items have always occupied a large place in the popular press. And the answers are varied. Between those, like Pierre Bourdieu, who consider that news items “make a diversion” – and hide the real social evil from us – and those who think, like Michel Foucault, that they have the merit of revealing the norms of a society, there are those who see in it a magnificent “full story”.
In the family news item, I ask the mother
Alright, but what do we do with all this?
We are putting some order into it to try to resolve our dilemma: should we be ashamed of being held in suspense by the Daval affair or the cold box Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes? In short, is it serious to like news items?
