this is why I am anti-news-media
Thirteen men going down into the earth and the entire world begins to watch and speculate, fueled but the pictures and television footage of people suffering.
Thirteen men, working hard to support their families in an industry where danger lurks closer than most people will ever experience.
Thirteen men, none rich, but none poor, with loved ones who dwell on the surface of this earth while they dig deep into the planet to help fuel our society.
Thirteen men went missing.
It was a recipe for a major news story, and the media whores descended, rutting in the worry, anguish, and pain that the families of these men were enduring. Like vultures, “correspondents” came from far and wide to “cover” the “accident”. All they really did was make the situation worse.
There was an explosion. One man died instantly. And then the hunt was on for the remaining twelve.
The exec of the mining company even said the other 12 were alive. Families rejoicing. Churches rang their bells. Finally, there was the happy ending that every American craves. But then he retracted that statement when the grim truth surfaced.
One man, barely alive.
No more bells. No more smiles. But it wasn’t quiet. Wails of pain. Screams of anguish. People, in their most raw form, suffering. And the media put it all on paper and shoved a video camera in the face of it, much to the delight of the stupid carp that feed on the news media.
Everyone is at fault here.
The mine is at fault for not being as-honest-as-quickly as possible.
You out there, you stupid carp, are at fault for eating up this news and saying it’s ok for the media to feed you this muck.
The “correspondents” who were “covering” the “accident” are at fault for insisting it’s ok to point a camera and a microphone at the face of human suffering.
Even I am at fault for writing about it.
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If we all keep swimming along like stupid carp, eating up the trash that the media throws at us, it’s only going to get worse. They are conditioning us to enjoy suffering; to indulge in it. Why? My theory is because it makes you feel better.
Excuse me?
Yes, it makes you feel better. “Oh, thank GOD that’s not my husband down in that mine who could be dead…” “Man, I’m so glad I didn’t get in that horrible accident, LOOK at how that car is torn up!” “I’m so happy I’m not one of the 160 people blown up by a suicide bomber”
Sick and twisted, isn’t it.
I can’t think of how it’s going to get better. I don’t know how to fix the situation. I worked for the television news media for a year or so and had to leave because it was rotting my brain. I just walked away.
But I know something needs to be done.
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Exposing suffering for the sake of watching suffering is disgusting. But, on the other hand, if you show people living in bad conditions (human suffering) because you are trying to DO something about it, that’s a completely different thing.
My final thought is this; make yourself more conscious of what you are watching and reading. Think more about what you are staring at when you look at the TV. Watch how the news programs are structured;
Open your eyes. Don’t be a stupid carp.