audreyh1
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Its natural to feel shocked, saddened, to feel empathy for the victims, to wonder how to avoid such a situation and pray or send condolences to the victim families. But I can't help but believe that it's the media telling us that we HAVE to keep watching so we can learn, so we can figure out how to prevent it in the future. It's the media telling us that we NEED to feel shocked and saddened for these folks, implying that to keep watching and learn details about them, to identify and "connect" is somehow reaching out and providing condolence. I know that these are natural human feelings, regardless of what the media says, but the media are exploiting these natural feelings to retain eyeballs, and I find the patronizing manipulation infuriating, which is another reason I don't watch. It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't need the media telling me how I should feel or respond. It's insidious.