There was a tragedy in Kirkwood Missouri last night. A madman opened fire on a City Council meeting in Kirkwood Missouri, killing five people. That was last night.
I was riding my bike through Kirkwood today, and I happened to travel past the Kirkwood City Hall. It was about 1:00 pm and the media were out there, forcused on the City Hall as though there were hostages being held in the City Hall. As if they were photographing something interesting.
But there was nothing happening at City Hall, at least nothing visible. The crime was quickly committed last night and the criminal was shot at the scene. But this striking scene of the media doing it’s thing gives us an idea of what it is to report “news” these days. There were dozens of cameras, lots of hustle and bustle and at least three news babes –they were quite busy primping before going on the air (you need to have your hair perfectly in place to tell the complicated story of a deranged man shooting 5 people the day before).
They were taking pictures of the Kirkwood City Hall–using it as a backdrop for the sensational stories [1] they were writing.
Here’s a headline for them: Kirkwood City Hall still exists!
Too bad the meda doesn’t spend 10% of this effort on the hundreds of lies told by the Bush Administration and the thousands of resulting deaths in Iraq.
Apparently, the media prefer simple stories like this one: a crazy man kills some people in front of a bunch of witnesses. Yep, that’s an easy story. Bring in dozens of cameras and lots of reporters so we can get to the bottom of this.
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