Journalism 101. Once thing that I’ve learned after watching many depressing hours of late night news: if it bleeds it leads. Or more specifically, if it accessible via TV, radio or Internet it is probably depressing enough to make you want to throw your TV out the window and disconnect your Internet from now till conditions improve. I decided to put together a short list of news worthy events that get the biggest ‘Ugh’ of the week.
Property of the Supreme Court.
Most people would probably agree that life is one of the most precious things you can have. But, when you are the producer of life the decision becomes yours, and only yours alone as to whether or not you want to be responsible for deciding whether you want to bring another life into the world. The Supreme Court’s decision to officially make Partial Birth Abortion illegal could probably be the beginning steps to overturning Roe V. Wade all together, and could ultimately eliminate a woman’s right over her own body. Bible thumpers don’t even have to use vivid images of fire and brimstone to scare women away from becoming impregnated and then deciding to abort the pregnancy half way through. They would only have to remind them that no matter how independent and free you think you are, in reality a bunch of self righteous old farts pretty much own your reproductive organs.
Virginia Tech
Very, very tragic. There aren’t enough words in the English language to fully express how screwed up this whole thing really is. When something horrific like what happened at Virginia Tech. takes place there is really no way to emotionally prepare yourself for something so shocking and unexpected. What could be addressed though is why after the first shooting the campus didn’t take steps to lock down the campus, which could have maybe prevented the cold-blooded murders. Check out our other blogs on Virginia Tech murders.
Feet to the Fire, Still a Liar
It is a sad state of affairs when the head of the Justice Department can’t even do his job right . When you start forgetting very vital, important events of your career it should be a signal that maybe you should start saving your daily activities to an external hard drive for safekeeping. This story gets the “Ugh” award of the week for overuse of the “I don’t know, nor do I remember” excuse.
Spiderman Sings?
Broadway was made for the lavish artsy world. Rounding out a week of ‘UGH’, the news that Spiderman could be heading to Broadway is equivalent to really bad bubble gum. It looks like it could work with it's pretty colorful hyped packaging, but halfway through the first show when the hype gets stacked against the final product it could make the audience think they're chewing on wet play dough: a nasty aftertaste and an empty wallet of disappointment.
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