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Tony
Sensationalism at its worst. We here in the states have plenty of that stuff going around as well - 'that stuff' being greusome deaths and vulture jurnos hocking lurid stories. Sad that people can become so addicted to that stuff, including myself sometimes I am ashamed to say. Good post.
Be well,
-smartdog
posted by
smartdog_670
on October 28, 2006 at 1:00 PM
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Thanks for commenting!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 28, 2006 at 1:45 AM
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What a cruel world .
posted by
afzal50
on October 28, 2006 at 12:20 AM
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Tonyzonit, Its an everyday thing isn't it. We have become jaded to it.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 27, 2006 at 9:37 PM
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well written.......sad but the truth
posted by
star4sky5
on October 27, 2006 at 9:09 PM
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I saw a story on 20/20 tonight that just reeked of
Sensationalism and using the poor unfortunate lives of others to get ratings- we flipped the channel. People need to do that more.
posted by
Passionflower
on October 27, 2006 at 8:05 PM
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Hi Tony
The media will sacrifice goverments or children on the stone hearted tabliod, it would seem friend. Well wrote. Mike
posted by
lionladroar
on October 27, 2006 at 3:52 PM
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Tony,
I agree the media can be completely insensitive, when they focus on the wrong aspects of a tragedy like that. We are still shaking our heads in sadness here after a terrible car accident on the coast at the weekend that killed four young boys. The driver survived, but all his mates died. All were under eighteen. Something like this stops the wider community in its tracks - we've all got boys out there driving. The media has been quite kind, and there have been immediate calls for more driver education - up to one year - and more night driving before letting our kids out on the road. All the same, the first funeral was covered, briefly, on tv and in the newspaper - how could it not? There is a lot of love and sympathy going towards not only the families but to the young driver - it could have been any one of our sons. Perhaps this conscious-raising is what the media contributes, and in this case I think they got the balance about right.
posted by
mneme
on October 27, 2006 at 3:48 PM
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Tony,
I am dizzy too...
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 27, 2006 at 1:36 PM
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We just crossed each other in cyberspace, Marie-Claire!
Somewhere between NZ and GB! Gosh, I'm a bit dizzy, that was rather a fast journey. Thanks for the flower. I'll just whizz over to NZ again and pick the other one!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 27, 2006 at 12:56 PM
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Amen to you all, too.
I feel as though the news people think we're all peasants and rubberneckers and vampires. Well, we're not. And even if there is that impulse, why feed it? I think we all know the answer. Ratings.
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 27, 2006 at 12:53 PM
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Tony,
The media can be so insensitive and people can be so goulish. I hate the inane question "how do you feel about this"? duh!
Having said that, some journalists can be sensitive. i think if we always focus on sad things, that is all we end up seeing and it can become depressing. It is up to us to bring a little sunshine in people's lives. If you walk in the streets with your head down, with a frown as if you were carrying the world on your shoulders and forget to smile...you are missing the opportunity to help. I know sometimes there is not much to smile about but if you look more closely there is, even if you smile through the tears or cry with a smile...This is my two dollars worth for today. and oh go pick your flower in my blog...
in case you missed the other one.
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 27, 2006 at 12:53 PM
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amen from me
posted by
Shams-i-Heartsong
on October 27, 2006 at 12:47 PM
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Tony
You've reminded me of a tragedy I came to learn of an old man who lost everyone of his family in a flood that hit Rajasthan in India, excepting a grand-daughter left alive and he came to a lawyer for claims that nothing could ever be compensated with. I was a witness to his real-life sorrows he narrated to the advocate only 15 days ago.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 27, 2006 at 12:18 PM
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Don't you just hate when the media does that?
And then, of course, there's the predictable interview with the neighbour (who probably didn't know the family very well but has all kinds of comments to share). Or the typical reflection: "they were such nice kids!". What the heck else are you going to say "they were rotten people and deserved such a tragedy?" Duh Didn't see the story here in Canada but I've seen 'em all - the car crashes where they focus in on the lowly running shoe or the abandoned Teddy Bear. It's disgusting. There.... you got a rise out of me today, Tony.
posted by
Troosha
on October 27, 2006 at 11:45 AM
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