Now that the media frenzy over the Virginia Tech shootings is starting to abate… Only slightly… There will be many funerals and memoriam services destined to receive blanket non stop coverage on every TV channel… Apart from the insanity of US gun laws (or lack, thereof) has anyone learned a Godamn thing?
Obviously not. Watching CNN the day after, one of their star reporters (who looked more like a star of the silver screen than a “News” channel) repeatedly asked one of the survivors how he was feeling. The obviously distressed youth finally told her he was too shocked and didn’t want to talk about it any more. She nodded in sympathy, then carried on with a barrage of questions.
On the same day, 200 people died in a series of bomb blasts in Iraq. There was virtually no mention of it on any of the so-called news channels. From what I can gather, it got equally shrift thrift in the UK.
The purveyors of news will devote acres of coverage to the death of Anna Nichole Smith, or who is getting kicked off “Big Brother.” But, boring old Bagdad, or what the nut case in North Korea is up to… Nah… How big are the tits on page three today?
George Parker
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