Perspective in the Media

Nice to know that our media hasn't become sensationalized, or anything. That they won't overlook true news, important news, just because something that appeals to the public's morbid and twisted fascination with all things ridiculous occurs.

Let's say, for example, that there were demonstrations happening in a country where what appears to be a corrupt and tainted elections recently took place. Let's say that the demonstrators were, for the first time, standing up to this dictatorship, and demanding that freedom of choice and democracy were actually allowed. Let's say that the government in this same country then decided to start cracking down on it's own people, shooting and murdering it's own citizens then silencing their voices both in the real world as well as online.

If this were happening, and a singer who was far past his prime, who's only real contribution to society for the last fifteen years was entries on the "Bizarre News" page of the newspapers... we wouldn't see every single news outlet turn their attention to it, completely forgetting the carnage and courage being displayed by everyday people in the face of true adversity...

Would we?

~Guy