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I'm beginning to hate watching the news October 22, 2010 |
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To be fair, what else are they going to do? Just say, "Jane Jones had a rock dropped on her"? I don't have a problem when they describe the victims of such horrid crap people pull, and that a person had loved ones, including children, gives us a picture of who got fuct. What is annoying is when they say something like "A child in a Minivan had to watch as a rock crushed his mother's face today when. . .. "
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i have a problem if there were other casualties-for example "Mother of three dies in plane crash.....five people including a mother of three died today when a plane overshot the runway at Phukyiu Airport on Saturday..."
there were at least four other people, but they choose the most sympathy gathering victim to make it somehow seem more tragic.
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It was news being reported like this that made me 'come out' as CF and start seeking like-mindeds online. I couldn't believe I was the only person in the world who felt that certain editorial practices like this were vile.
In the UK, there are still a couple of downmarket newspapers who describe women (criminals, perpetrators, lottery winners, whatever) by their hair colour. Yes. Hair colour.
"Felicity, 41, entered a plea of not guilty today in the high court. The blonde is accused of committing grievous bodily harm..."
"Brunette Alison, 23, was online when a bolt of lightning struck her roof and..."
Notice how the hair colour description is used as a substitute for 'she' or 'her' or 'the woman'? And that woman has to be within the range of sexual attraction? You don't see four year old girls described as "The brunette hopped down from the rocking horse and ran across the room..." And you certainly don't see women presumed to be beyond the range of men's sexual interest being described similarly. "White-haired Mary, 79..." LEAST OF ALL are men subjected to this kind of degrading harrassment: "The ginger said he felt his appointment as the new CEO would start a new chapter of the history of the company..."
The whole issue of stressing the children in, under, or around any story is equally vile. For a start, I value ALL of human life. Not just childrens'. When I hear about a plane crash, my heart pinches and I immediately think of the poor people onboard as a whole. I dont just imagine what small children might have been hurtled with great force around the cabin like missiles before the inevitable crash, for fuck's sake, that's sick. And children, parents and grandparents aren't somehow more entitled to sympathy anyway. To me, it's like saying the 10 dead passengers who earned the highest salaries ought to be elevated above the other passengers because they're obviously 'more important' and 'greater contributors to society' than the victims who were on slimmer incomes. Or how about the 10 passengers who were black -- would they be picked out as more special than the rest because dying in a plane crash is the last thing a black person needs after all that civil rights movement stuff, a lifetime of prejudice, maybe living next door to bigots, and the whole history of slavery? No? Then WHY pick out the parents and kiddies??[/[/b]b]
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Yeah, it was like the guy who killed his pregnant wife{ heck , i can't even remember their names ; that's how much of an impression it made on me!!].the media always made such a big deal out of saying that he was charged with TWO counts of murder.Scott somebody or other.
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To be fair, what else are they going to do? Just say, "Jane Jones had a rock dropped on her"?
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It was news being reported like this that made me 'come out' as CF and start seeking like-mindeds online. I couldn't believe I was the only person in the world who felt that certain editorial practices like this were vile.
In the UK, there are still a couple of downmarket newspapers who describe women (criminals, perpetrators, lottery winners, whatever) by their hair colour. Yes. Hair colour.
"Felicity, 41, entered a plea of not guilty today in the high court. The blonde is accused of committing grievous bodily harm..."
"Brunette Alison, 23, was online when a bolt of lightning struck her roof and..."
Notice how the hair colour description is used as a substitute for 'she' or 'her' or 'the woman'? And that woman has to be within the range of sexual attraction? You don't see four year old girls described as "The brunette hopped down from the rocking horse and ran across the room..." And you certainly don't see women presumed to be beyond the range of men's sexual interest being described similarly. "White-haired Mary, 79..." LEAST OF ALL are men subjected to this kind of degrading harrassment: "The ginger said he felt his appointment as the new CEO would start a new chapter of the history of the company..."
The whole issue of stressing the children in, under, or around any story is equally vile. For a start, I value ALL of human life. Not just childrens'. When I hear about a plane crash, my heart pinches and I immediately think of the poor people onboard as a whole. I dont just imagine what small children might have been hurtled with great force around the cabin like missiles before the inevitable crash, for fuck's sake, that's sick. And children, parents and grandparents aren't somehow more entitled to sympathy anyway. To me, it's like saying the 10 dead passengers who earned the highest salaries ought to be elevated above the other passengers because they're obviously 'more important' and 'greater contributors to society' than the victims who were on slimmer incomes. Or how about the 10 passengers who were black -- would they be picked out as more special than the rest because dying in a plane crash is the last thing a black person needs after all that civil rights movement stuff, a lifetime of prejudice, maybe living next door to bigots, and the whole history of slavery? No? Then WHY pick out the parents and kiddies??[/[/b]b]
Although I of course don't like it, I believe that I know the reason why the media latches onto the kyd angle. It's because breeders are OVERWHELMINGLY the majority and news stories and other media go after their biggest target audience in order to gain more viewers and sell more air space and papers.It's a reality that breeders think that a childed person's life is more valuable, which isn't surprising since that would include them and their lives. Breeders (and most all PNB's too) have a LOT of empathy for other parents when they lose a child, so naturally their ears will perk up at the very mention of anything death related that even remotely involves a child. I can't count how many times that I have heard or read the typical, "..It's a parent's WORST nightmare!!!!!"
For a multitudes of reasons, childed people have hoisted themselves up on a pedastal above and beyond the rest and they truly believe that their lives are more important and valuable than anyone else's life because they are parents. It's really an odd mindset if anyone thinks about it logically and for the life of me I can NOT understand it or comprehend the reasons that they feel this way, unless it's because by being childed it makes them feel important. I dunno, it's a mystery to me. I can actually comprehend why a kyd's death is newsworthy because it's kinda sad that a small child never had a chance to live, but their moo getting killed? Why is THAT more sad? It's common knowledge that a very young kyd can easily latch onto another adult and get along just fine.
Therefore, I believe that it's a manufactured mindset for one simple and selfish as hell reason reason:The "group" in question, who is deserving of more sympathy, press, and attention, includes them.
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Yeah, it was like the guy who killed his pregnant wife{ heck , i can't even remember their names ; that's how much of an impression it made on me!!].the media always made such a big deal out of saying that he was charged with TWO counts of murder.Scott somebody or other.
scott peterson and i recall him because he had to be the dumbest mutherfucking murderer on the face of the planet. he kept blaming a satanic cult for the murder. there was actually a reason he was charged for two-the fetus was found outside of the mother's body. once the fetus leaves the body, it can be a murder, also, there was the fact that he murdered lacey BECAUSE she was pregnant. he was one of these expectant duhs who suddenly realized he might not be the center of attention after the child was born.
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echnically, what Scott Peterson did fits the legal definition of a "hate crime". Although there have been plenty of husbands killing pregnant wives in the past, it's pretty obvious why THIS story shone above the rest. White, attractive, well liked, young, pregnant with first kid(I do believe that catapults it), good looking husband, middle class suburbanite, Christmas, it has all of the "tags" that the general public just eats up. Peterson is a STUPID motherfucker though and could probably have gotten away with it if he could have kept his dick in his pants until after the body(s) were found. How could he NOT know that his affair would be found out, doesn't he watch CSI and Law and Order?
Lacy sounds like a classic "oops" woman, but Scott HAD to have known that she was baybee rabid because women do NOT usully hide that and everyone who knew her said that she had ALWAYS wanted a kyd. I think that the police and the general public give him WAY too much credit for having planned all of this, which is actions afterwards clearly demonstrate like his continuing on with Amber Frye and selling off Lacy's belongings. I believe that they got into an argument over the damned baybee and their financial problems, he took a swing at her, she slipped and was accidentally killed or knocked unconscious and he finished her off in a crime of passion. The rest was just a big coverup. If he would have simply called 9-11 and acted the least bit distraught about it then he may not have even been charged.
Scott Peterson is a maniacal idiot and deserves to be exactly where he is for the rest of his natural life. At least he won't be siring any clones.