Saturday, August 23

The crash...

Maybe you heard about this tragic jet accident in Madrid. More than 150 people died on the crash. It's been several days, but we get full coverage on the news everyday. Too much, in my opinion. There's an investigation going on, which will probably take weeks. But in the meantime, some tv programs just seem to dwell on the tragedy, and I hate that. We must hear about every single person who is somehow linked to the accident. And by linked I don't mean interviewing the mechanic who fixed something on the plane before take off. I mean a taxi driver who had relatives of a victim in his car, someone who happened to "miss" the plane in the last minute and is so happy he never made it on time... And then some programs choose the music carefully. How can they possibly interview a man who lost his brother on the plane with Beethoven's Moonlight sonata as background music?? Some programs are just sentimental pornography. Leave people to mourn alone, the only reason they're showing it is to have a morbid look into somebody's pain. Kind of like the way many people would just stop by a car acccident and watch with fascination...

3 comments:

Buffalo said...

Unfortunately the news media trades in the spectacular. The greater the disaster, the longer they dwell on it.

James Shott said...

Buff is right about the penchant for media to focus on the spectacular. Multiply that by the 24-hour news cycle, the need to fill all that time on all those channels and you get not only a bizarre focus on death and destruction, but also the making of relatively unimportant items into "big news."

I think we are stuck with both of those things.

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