Our News Disgusts Me · 10:41pm Dec 14th, 2012
Like vultures around a dead animal, the news arrives within hours to harass everyone involved with questions that are tactless at best, sensationalist and tasteless at worst.
This morning, twenty students and six adults were killed at an elementary school in Connecticut by a shooter whose name has not yet been confirmed, who then shot himself. By early afternoon, the reports were already flying. The name of the shooter not being released would not stop the relentless media in their quest for the truth, resorting to wild guesses and a confirmed misidentification. We can thank the brave men and women of our news media for ruining one young man's life by erroneously labeling him as a mass murderer nationwide.
"But why stop there?" our brave and noble reporters asked themselves. "Why not hunt down where the police have hidden the families of the victims and bombard them with personal questions in their time of grief? The people have a RIGHT TO KNOW how a mother feels after learning that her ten year old daughter was murdered by a psychopath, just like they have a RIGHT TO KNOW the thoughts of a surviving nine year old who was evactuated from the school and passed by the corpses of former friends. The reporters then paused momentarily to contemplate what it might be like to have actual empathy for other humans before getting survivors to pose morosely for photographs in the hopes that they'd become as famous as the picture of the Kent State shooting. Maybe they'd even win an award in journalism, and surely their personal commendation would help heal the wounds in everyone's lives.
Fuck, I feel sick.
Jesus. I forgot the press wouldn't have any qualms about tracking down the little children's families and asking them how they're feeling. How...the fuck do you think they're feeling? Do I have to say it? Do I?!