Friday 17 January 2014

UK: "Poverty Porn", "Weather Porn" and "Eco Porn"



Every other journalist and reviewer seems to be using these phrases now.

If TV News broadcasts appear to exaggerate the wildness of storms and the size of the waves, it's "weather porn".

If documentary programmes like "Benefits Street" appear to be provocative and unbalanced, it's "poverty porn".

Other variations?

Rod Giblett, in Landscape and Photography (2012):

"Landscape photography was born out of the embrace and intercourse of landscape and photography that also produced 'eco-porn'".

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