{"id":10127,"date":"2006-08-28T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T04:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/28\/the-pornography-of-suffering.html"},"modified":"2006-08-28T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T04:38:15","slug":"the_pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/the_pornography.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Pornography of Suffering&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=2367464&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Covering an airplane crash and its causes<\/a>?  News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/08\/27\/crash.victims.ap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calling up relatives and friends of the victims, looking for quotes to make the tragedy all the more viscerally tragic<\/a>?  <a href=\"http:\/\/dailytroll.com\/?p=986\" target=\"_blank\">Exploitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covering an airplane crash and its causes? News. Calling up relatives and friends of the victims, looking for quotes to make the tragedy all the more viscerally tragic? 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