Yes, I’m one of the handful of about 20 people who watch the CBS Early Show. Yesterday they featured a story about a bunch of flaming idiot bullies that make me weep for our future who set up a “friend” of theirs and beat the hell out of her. There were 5 cameras catching all of the “action” so they could post it online and become internet stars. The victim of this beating has sustained deafness in her left ear, damage to her eye and multiple bruises. There may be more damage but more tests need to be run. The culprits were in jail laughing about it and asking things like if they’d be out in time to go to cheerleading practice. They showed absolutely no remorse.
The worst part of this whole thing? As The Early Show was reporting about it, they must’ve run that footage a MINIMUM of 10x as teasers and while the poor girls parents are describing her injuries. This fulfills the entire reason these a-holes set up this production is to get national attention and be “famous.” Show it ONE time and then drop it for God’s sake. Then I just flipped it on this morning and they are showing it AGAIN!!!! I was so disgusted I had to change the channel.
The media is half the problem in situations like this! They talk about violence kids are exposed to in video games or movies yet they don’t stop to think of what programming they’re showing. I went to school for broadcasting, there’s a reason why there’s the saying “if it bleeds, it leads.” I refuse to watch the nighly news anymore. I immediately change it. If the local news gets too depressing, I change it too. I find if I listen to it, it truly does affect my mood and I can feel depressed, angry, hopeless, etc after watching many of the stories on the news. Just like after changing the Early Show this morning after seeing a nanosecond of that disgusting video, I’ve been watching old school Denise Austin workouts and laughing at her 80’s leotards because I think I had a pair just like them…when I was 10. I’ll take that kind of start to my day than listening about the protests of China or what the youth of the nation are doing to chuck our society into the proverbial hellbound hand basket.
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