A }Sunday Times{ top 10 bestseller in hardback examining the peculiar positions 'the news' occupies in our lives, investing in it an authority and importance we used to reserve for religion. Witty and global in reach. De Botton has 4,800 Twitter followers and is a frequent contributor to public debat With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous?
