The country has been hit again. Its painful.
There are lots of things that are wrong and need correction, so there is no more loss of life. Lots of people to blame (though no one will take responsibility, no heads will roll, nothing will happen, other than some 'investigations' and braggadocio talk), but there is something else that i was particularly agitated by.
News. Normal, uneventful days are bad enough with the 20 or so 'news' channels manufacturing non sense to grab eye balls. But on days like these.... when the broadcasting medium, that has a voice in millions of homes, and their inhabitants - the citizens of this country.... has the responsibility to report the facts as they are and do so in a fashion that does not add to the horror, anxiety and panic of those tuning in to the horrific events unfolding before their eyes.
It is quite the opposite now. Other than a handful of news agencies... DD, NDTV, CNN-IBN, every single 'news' channel has one liners flashing on the screen in blood red and font 48 size, with the 'reporter' literally shouting out unimportant but panic inducing details in a tone of voice that would suggest that its Armageddon this very moment and she is right in the centre of the theatre of war.
I am just angry right now. Agitated.
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You don't know me but I believe we are of the same mind about the panic created by news casting agencies. Here in America we have this bias in every agency and you select which news you like by the political party you vote for. But all news agencies also tend to desensitize us in the production of broadcast itself. We once watched as every news channel followed around a football player who was a suspect in the murder of his wife. And it was so exciting of a story that the news channels had to show ONLY that news which made every single halfway intelligent person wonder what else we were missing and why it was being done. And for 3 long months it was every day O.J. Simpson for my family day in and day out. But now if you turn on the news its a completely different atrocity of mankind all together in that there will be a segment where the broadcaster becomes very monotone, lowers his shoulders in posture and he delivers something somber in spirit with the deaths of XX at the age of X and XX killed by a man who XXXXXX and then as if it never happened a blonde idiot with large ... eyes ... says in the cute bubbly voice that likely got her through college, "Up next a dog that knows how to play kick the can, isn't he cute, o.m.g. I love dogs"... complete lack of respect to the news that substantial in moral credibility.
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