Drama Mongers

The situation in VA is terrible, it truly truly is. I am saddened and my heart goes out to each of these families and all of the students affected by such an act of violence. It's awful, ugly and certainly a sad day in our history.

My disgust for the media through times of tribulation are not pardoned by my sadness though. It has been less than 48 hours, not all the facts are known and the media is crawling all over it like cockroaches. And like cockroaches, they have very little respect for privacy. There are hundreds if not thousands of people directly effected by the deaths of these students, faculty...by a horror that none of us can understand when it happens. Yet this college campus, instructors and anyone closely related to the situation is being actively stocked, hounded and questioned without restraint.

And...what does it matter if the person, that for what ever reason felt inclined to start shooting people, is South Korean? How does that factor AT all into the situation? I'm pretty baffled by it, but that's the first thing you read when you see the description of the 'killer.' As if you can't tell by the kids picture that is now plastered all over the internet. Apparently his ethnic origin is a critical factor in what type of person he was. And that he was a 'loner'. ooooh scary, that MUST make him a bad guy. Speculating on this persons character is totally inappropriate. It doesn't change the facts.

Primarily though, what irks me the most, is how you can almost imagine some Franken-Journalist salivating over this news. Eyes gleaming, lips in a grim smile. Wringing a sweaty set of palms with eager anticipation of the details. And even worse than the freakish plastic people contained in little electronic boxes spewing forth accounts of information that cannot be proven at the moment are their masters who decide what should be reported based on the desires of those currently stuffing the pockets of their network.

It is all very sad, I do not discount that. I do not discount the fact that there is something very wrong here. It's just very painful to see how grossly uneven the balance is between the media and the reality.

One thought I've had all day though is this: Fox News has been approved to show footage and air audio of 911 one calls from this even but not dead soldiers coming home from Iraq. Or the 100 Iraqi's killed for every American soldier. Anna Nicole Smith and idiot Imus were considered breaking news for days, those topics are STILL HOT.

Diversions diversions diversions.

Fear fear fear!