I get squicked by tabloid coverage of various scandals, actually. I work in a magazine shop that also sells newspapers, so it's impossible to ignore the headlines. And my overwhelming reaction to most of the cover-page stories is sympathetic embarrassment and shame for the people being written about, because it's such an invasion of privacy.

There are a lot of people out there who don't seem to get the point of stories. I think that's sad, but to each their own, I suppose. *sigh*

You're right about Hamlet's friends! Horatio survives, and maybe Hamlet had other old college friends we never hear about, but everyone else is dead. To be honest, what I mostly wondered about at the end of Hamlet was the political mess Denmark was now in, and whether someone would rebel against Fortinbras (or claim that he had actually killed the royal family himself and was trying to pass it off as Hamlet's fault to make himself look blameless).