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This isn’t about the young man at Virginia Tech, these are my thoughts how the media is handling the situation. I cannot deny it was tragic, and individuals should be allowed to grieve. But this shooting should not occupy every single 24 hour news program throughout the entire week. I fail to see the utility that news channels have. Instead of insightful journalism, the channels regurgitate the same misinformation, regardless of the veracity, for days and weeks until the next "tragedy" occurs.
Give this some thought before you tell me how I should weep, and tear the clothing from my body. Until the shootings occurred, everyone was grossly concerned with some news personality named Imus. Before that was the macabre interest in who Anna Nicole Smith's baby' daddy was. News channels treat all events equally important they see their only duty as ensuring our attention rapt in their commentary; from entertainment-journalism to horrifically serious issues.
Not all events are created for equal air time. Perhaps we should spend an appropriate amount of time and energy on a subject, and then move on.
Speaking of moving on, each time I see a news event take more than 20 minutes to discuss on TV, I instinctively wish to get on with my life. I haven't ignored the aftermath. In fact I've kept an eye on the situation as only a technologically-inclined person would -- by reading internet discussion groups and blogs, collating the data using my god given talents of deductive reasoning. Using these rare talents, I've been able to cut through the misinformation, fear, and doubt that these stations have been proliferating through this marketing spree they call responsible journalism.
But responsible journalism is more than filling the void in my television schedule with irrelevant information. It is irresponsible to bring people who are factually incorrect onto your set, wasting precious seconds of my life, spouting hateful accusations towards the teachers, student body, the shooter and even some of the victims themselves. It's open to discussion whether any point beyond ratings is served by bringing a single family on television demanding the president of the university be fired for incompetence. It’s another thing to bring erroneous experts to further sweeps week.
Ever since Columbine a particularly infamous lawyer from Florida, Jack Thompson, brings seething frustration in the faces of many video game enthusiasts. He blames video games as the cause of an inherent violence that spurs these events. This wouldn't be a bad thing if these experts were exposed when they were wrong or had evidence on their side. Instead, they are met with no resistance, as if their words were godsend.
The tragedies that occur shouldn't be turned into circuses, nor allowed to be used for any political end. The next time you see a news channel blow something out of proportion, turn off your television and read a book.