Morbid news or morbid public?
Posted in News and Media on February 19th, 2006 by moodyWanted to share some of my thoughts on today’s media and news broadcasting.
Here are few today’s headlines:
-Muslims Assault U.S. Embassy in Indonesia
-Scientist say California quake could cause Katrina II
-Tens of Thousands Lack Power in Northeast
-Filipino Victims Buried in Mass Grave
Is it just me or all of the stations and news providers are bringing ONLY bad news?
I don’t really blame them since they are doing it for ratings. News stations will go where the money and ratings is. No question about it, but what I do resent is that public curiosity became so morbid and dark that anything related to mass deaths or chopping the heads off will bring them to the computer screen or make them read it. A decade ago we had only a small percentage of people surfing the net for news like that, and you could find it only on certain sites which are gaining in popularity these days. Right now everyone is doing it. Yahoo, MSN, etc. Every time I go to yahoo to read the news I am left out with emptiness and feeling depressed and I just want to blow my fricking brains out, since the world is coming to an end (at least according to the news)