News Vs Consequences
There is a young girl that went missing not long after we moved here and her name was Haleigh Cummings. She has been missing for 3 months now and they still have no signs of her. She has stopped being reported on the news. The news reported on her for only about a month. I can’t imagine what it’s like to lose a child. I feel for her parents and family. My heart goes out to all people that have lost a child. The thing that I don’t understand though is why we spend so much time listening to the news talking about Casey Anthony. The news reports on her every time they air. They call it the “Case against Casey.” I understand that it’s an ongoing case but isn’t Haleigh’s case still ongoing. I know they found Casey Anthony’s daughter and unfortunately it was too late to save her. But when did we become so obsessed with a woman who may or may not have killed her own child when there are still missing kids out there. Why is one child’s story more interesting or important than the other? Why do we stop reporting on any missing child? I think the news needs to stop talking so much about one woman whose daughter won’t be brought home safe and spend that time on the still missing children than maybe we could bring a few of those home. It’s so bad now that the lawyers are talking about how Casey Anthony won’t get a fair trial because she is so well known. I really think that sometimes the news stations don’t stop and think about the consequences of what they air. I have heard them air stories here of a man in witness protection that just was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I stopped dead in my tracks that day and thought I did not just hear that. While it may be interesting didn’t anyone think of the consequences of what they just said? If that was the case then it wouldn’t be too hard to track the man down now. Which I would think that the man would need to be relocated now and who pays for it the government that’s already poor. There have been many times I couldn’t believe what I heard from the news. There have been times that they aired things about soldiers and deaths where the family hasn’t been notified first. There have been times where they aired things about first responders and if the families had been watching the panic that would have come from it just doesn’t seem worth it. I just don’t understand how some things make it on the news and why the news seems to have no common sense on some subjects. I think that someone needs to step in and say as interesting as it maybe that some things should just be left unsaid and the world might be a better place.
