[Prospero]

Strange how apparently foreign the concept of Pilgrimage seems to be to so many. Nothing new about about that, remembering how difficult it would have been to make such a journey, without being molested (in the classic sense) say a century ago or more.

Still, these self-styled news readers and even the writers can conceive of no more context for noting the woman's passing by than the interest seen in another medium.

The fluttering laughter heard in the woman newsreader's voice at the end of the segment seemed desperately hollow, perhaps even suicidal.

Were they even listening, or did they miss completely what Shakespeare wrote, about there being "more things in Heaven and Earth than are dream't of in your philosophy"?

[Williams]

I think you nailed it. We’ve become such a conformist society and using tv and the Internet to gawk at anyone different.