But, as a former reporter and editor who studies the media and who teaches journalism ethics, I ask the question: Can stoking this fascination cause harm?
Sweet Violets The Royal Ballet's work inspired by Jack the Ripper and the fascination he caused in painter Walter Sickert.
Mr. Pichushkin's case has caused fascination and revulsion here, in part because of his grisly boasts on national television and his menacing and self-satisfied air.
It is revealed that the Seminole wanted the ghost orchid in order to manufacture a drug that causes fascination; Laroche introduces this drug to Orlean.
My cover prevented me from asking direct questions, but I used Mélodie's "fascination" with the cause to probe him for details.
The writer reminisced nostalgically about the odor, "a mingling of oranges and oysters," and recalled that the stalls of miscellany had "exerted a fascination which often caused one to linger and miss his boat".
I wasn't the least bit concerned with the results, much less cared who was competing, but wondered what the fascination was that caused bloggers, mainstream print and broadcast media, and breathless pubescent children to get so concerned with the matter.
But the play's sold-out premiere this month was a measure of France's lingering fascination with a case that has caused a societal reflection on money, privilege and power — particularly as it relates to the sexes.
This case has caused such fascination because usually it's the other way around.
With a healthy first printing of 100,000 copies, his publisher, Doubleday, is betting that Mr. Harris himself is cause for fascination.
