What is Wrong with the American Media

[Aelfwine]

Here is a headline from MSNBC:

Woman delivers ‘miscarried’ baby in a toilet

I ask, why the hell do I need to know this? What makes this worthwhile news? I see stupid shit like this reported all the time. 5 die in Bus accident, miners die in WV, etc. These are local stories and should remain that way. I am not sure this one should even be reported locally. There is something sick about reporting every single tragedy as national news.....

[Allison]

Cable news, the internet, and the 24-hour news cycle. :(

[Aelfwine]

Its no excuse for this kind of poor taste. If they need to pad the news with this shit then maybe we should not have 24 hours news.

And, god Allison, enough with the damn dude icons. I view this at work. Not trying to have someone think I am on a gay forum at work :hump:

[cogsliastro]

just like when the katrina disaster was goin on and they were doing reports in front of the dead woman in front of the superdome.........shock value sells.

[Aelfwine]

Except the shock value of this stuff is over. What is shocking anymore? Its morbid. There really is a culture of death in this country and people eat this shit up.

Its fucked up when violence is more acceptable then sex. Sex does not offend me, sensless violence, and the media reporting of it, does. I am sorry, but the people who feel the opposite are seriously fucked up individuals.

[Figtoria]

I wonder if there are "good news" news stations.

[cogsliastro]

if there is,unfortunately.......there broke.

and i agree with the whole morbid sence of people,they just cant get enough death and destruction(as long as its not them).


very sad

[Nymf]

Our media feeds of sex.
Naked ppl having sex in TV soap:s and exlusivly covered in 2 pages in the newspaper the day after.

Id rather see some tortured guatamano camp prisoners getting shot in the head without an trail, u guys are just lucky i guess.