Okay, so get ready cuz no doubt I’m gonna piss off somebody.
I’m surely not the first to be critical of the coverage we are getting from the media on Malaysian flight 370 and what happened to it. As usual, for good reason I might add, CNN gets the bulk of the criticism for it’s as always, over the top, wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling coverage.
My criticism is deeper and broader.
I’m sick of ALL of it.
Almost from the beginning it was too much.
This is where some will take issue with me:
None of this crap matters except to a tiny tiny few people.
It matters only that enough time has past for any decent scenario that involves the plane landing somewhere and the passengers being cast-a-ways on some LOST island. Please don’t forget to push that button!
So we can safely assume that all aboard are dead.
I agree that it is important to find the plane for a variety of reasons, least of which is that if there are recoverable bodies, people I guess would like to bury them in the family plot.
But let’s face facts. Dead is dead.
All these people screeching for answers don’t want answers. They are really just avoiding their real pain and agony by not having this idiotic thing called “closure”. What happened? How did it happen? Was it a catastrophic defect in the plane or was it a bomb? Was it shot down? Not one of these scenarios changes anything for the families of victims. Dead is still dead, and you are not going to feel one bit better whichever “how” turns out to be the the case here.
That’s hard to hear. It’s also true.
I’m not sure that it matters whether somebody dies after a lingering illness, of old age, or from random gunfire down the block. The pain is what it is, and no fine words of “he had a full life”, or “at least her pain is over” changes much the misery of those who will be without someone they love. We are, whatever you may like to think, grieving for OUR loss, not their loss of life, say what we may.
But even if one posits that the “family needs to know”, you and I don’t. It’s unfortunate to be sure, as every death is, or nearly every one. But shit happens. Planes fly, planes crash. So do cars. Tractors turn over, trains run off tracks. The whys and wherefores matter little except to those who job it is to insure that this don’t happen often.
The people who built the plane are interested in this, as are search and rescue people (for what they can learn to do a better job). Pilots are interested to learn to do a better job to, if that is the case.
NOBODY else should be interested or care about this.
And media is wasting my time and their air time in seducing me to waste my time.
There are people who are dying from war.
Children are starving.
Medical breakthroughs are being made.
New books about important subjects are being published.
People are being denied their right to vote so one party can win what it cannot win otherwise–fairly.
Animals are being abused.
Our lakes, rivers and oceans continue to be polluted. Isn’t it a commentary on all this that there is so much likelihood that the mysterious “debris” is really just sea junk, something our oceans seem full of?
I’m sick of hearing about this.
I’m sick of hearing about Justin Bieber.
I’m sick of Housewives from Hell anywhere in the USA, of that Honey Boo Boo, who ever in hell she is, of all those crazy women who make up their CHILDREN to look like sluts and parade them on stage to win pageants, of ice road truckers, and swamp hunters, and moonshiners in the hills of West Virginia. I hate all this crap.
It’s just cheap time-wasting, mind-numbing, intelligence-killing drivel, and so is non-stop coverage of somebody else’s personal tragedy.
I’m sick of religious nuts everywhere. By the way, did you hear that the family of the dead wacko job, Fred Phelps, has the amazing audacity to plead for no one to picket their dear loved one’s funeral–for the public to have some “decency”. After all he was a fine man who loved God and “stood against perverts and fags” Seriously, his son said that!
And other than that, I’m having a wonderful Monday.
Existential Ennui 
It needed to be said Sherry
There is more suffering going on in the Palestinian territory under Israeli rule but the corporate media doesn’t want too much drama. Not the kind anyway that makes our allies in the Mideast look as bad as the people who are called terrorists by Israeli and Western standards.
Exactly Larry. There is so much misery in the world and it’s fairly easy to assign blame to a lot of it, yet we avoid doing so because they are “allies”. Who is an ally these days? The same standards as always seem to apply…who is dealing with our under-the-table needs best. If so, screw the crap they do to their own and neighbors…!END
There must be a way to read the news with MH370 and Justin Bieber filtered out.
As for Phelps, I’m not at all surprised that the family is now not so eager about people’s constitutional right to picket weddings – the right that WBC itself won in a court case (possibly even in a SCOTUS case).
the only way I know is to turn off the TV and just read online. At least you can skip all the crap. MSNBC was spending a huge amount of time on the flight as well. I don’t turn on Fox so I can’t comment. CNN was what the internet was aflame about. I don’t want MSM news any more…/but even BBC America was full of the non-story. !END
The news media is no longer about the news. It is about entertainment.
It’s been that way for years now, but how is this entertaining? I found out YESTERDAY that a massive mud slide in Washington State killed at least 14 and maybe as many as a hundred more, yet nobody is reporting on this. !END
The Phelps funeral story was a hoax. He’s not going to have a funeral.
Yeah, sick of it, too, Sherry. I rarely watch TV news anymore. I can’t stand their obsessions. However, it’s the lowest common denominator that drives their obsessions.
I think a lot of folks are feelin’ the same way, but don’t have the guts to say it.
Yeah I kinda figured that. Among my friends, I knew you were probably all thinking pretty much the same thing, I just was the first to speak it…Someone else surely would. Media is just awful in this country…on most everything. !END