Caution: coarse language. *not as bad anymore...I edited*
Don't say I didn't warn you. I'm pissed.
SCREW YOU MEDIA.
You people are self-serving dickheads. It's never about the story, it's about how you can convince people that you give the most up to date breaking news reports on a given event.
How dare you splash huge pictures of injured students being carried out of the VT academic building today before authorities even had an accurate count, let alone notified parents! Parents who were probably checking these stories over and over again just for that info maybe saw their kid being pulled out of the building.
THIS IS IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM. PERIOD. END OF STORY.
Stop trying to make the stories, assheads. Report them. That's all.
Just because we have the ability to instantly see images from a tragedy like the Virginia Tech shootings DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD.
Stop thinking about your damn ratings, and start thinking about your morals and ethics. You scumbags.
And while you're at it, stop pontificating and posturing for ratings. One of you douchebags was going on about how these kids were heroes. This is was before reports of some of the students trying to barricade doors with their legs. Yeah, that's pretty heroic. But you didn't know that then. You were just trying to make the story again, instead of reporting it. Most of those kids aren't heroes. Unfortunately. They were tragically in the wrong place at the really wrong time.
This was one of the biggest tragedies that doesn't have 9 or 11 in it for this country. It's a god damn shame the media has to try and sensationalize the story. Look, dickweeds, the story speaks for itself. You do the reporting. Let the editorializing come tomorrow.
I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
You damn right, Howard Beale. You damn right.
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here here! Very well written. I especially agree about the reporting without editorializing. I couldn't believe some of the shit that was being said at the press conference. There were one or two legitimate reporters asking actual questions instead of the vast majority who decided to turn it into a indictment of the campus police department.
ReplyDeleteG'day Bart,
ReplyDeleteI understand your anger. But because I'm old-fashioned, I ain't a big fan of the F-word.
I can see what's prompted your ire, but if you want the media to take notice of your righteous wrath, then you might be better off to do it in the style of a straight, hard-hitting editorial. I'd say remove the invective and you'll double the effect.
But hey, that's just me.
I'd hate to be a parent watching that footage and trying to figire out if my kid was among the stats.
I have a friend who was watching TV and saw footage of his own brother and his family, killed in an interstate car smash. Believe me, I know what you're saying.
David
If I actually thought the media would listen to me, I might have coached my words better.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, it's amazing that I haven't been that coarse yet. I cuss like a sailor.
I couldn't agree with you more, thanks for vocalising far more eloquently than I could, what a bunch of ass-holes the media are at their finest.
ReplyDeleteLeft out "hour", but you get my drift..
ReplyDeleteLeave the lanuage in. Say what you gotta say. If fuck will do it for you, then for fuck's sake, say it.
ReplyDeleteamen.
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