> I felt very uncomfortable with that whole national grief thing. I don't know anyone who felt that way. Most people I know felt like me that it was sad for the family but thats all. I felt the media presentation was a complete distortion. Even my parents (right wing tories) felt that way.

After the first few weeks the morbid media hype actually began to effect me itself more than anything else - not the subject itself but the neverending presence of it.

Like you I empathised with the family at first; after having the subject forced upon me relentlessly I began to become more and more unsympathetic. I ended up not knowing whether to blame the media for its gross insensitivity or the portrayed-masses of the UK for lapping it all up so much in the first place.