Overview
In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's 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 Diana's death a three-line 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 they'd been saving up for the big occasion. Sadly, they just seemed to be showboating; the eulogies, laments and tear-soaked platitudes ringing risibly hollow.
Production
Channel 4 Television
Cast & Characters
Christopher Hitchens
Self
Directors & Crew
Mark Soldinger
Director
More Like This
Little Sister's vs. Big Brother
2002
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
2010
Joseph Kessel, la mallette de l'ogre
2025
You are Not a Soldier
2021
En formation
2021
Star Trek: The True Story
2013
Històries de Bruguera
2012
In the Lost City
2009
Becoming Princess Diana
2021
The Last Days of Princess Diana
2021