“Real life horrors are on your phone instantly”

from Brendan O'Connor · host RTÉ Radio 1

After the hospitalisation of blogger Perez Hilton this week, Dave Hanratty of the No Encore podcast talks to Brendan about Hilton’s rise, the darkness of the celebrity internet culture of the 2000s and the disturbing voyeurism of social media.

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