Television Content

How come there is so many bad things on the news? I am not trivializing the bad things that happen but by producing these stories in such abundance, doesn’t that tend to trivialize it all on its own? There are almost as many death counts in the first fifteen minutes of news than there is in the first fifteen minutes on an action movie. Are they in competition?

I have never been there but I have heard that in other countries they actually run some good news stories. Mrs. Smith had her cat rescued from an old oak tree, the Smith school ran a successful bake sale today. Wouldn’t it be nice to hear more of these stories rather than the attention grabbing homicides that we hear about now? I guess attention grabbing is the key here and that is why we see so many. It is important to keep us informed, don’t get me wrong. We do need to know about dangerous situations that develop in our communities, but do they have to be repeated over and over? It is so nice to see the stories about the A+ students in our towns. Let’s see more of these.

The Amber Alerts are a fantastic way to let people know about children in dangerous situations and people that we have to look out for. I think that these should take precedent over the repetitive murder stories.

One other thing that is annoying about our news stories is the use of the word alleged. When somebody is standing there with a smoking gun, shells all around his feet, wounded and dead people surrounding him and he is saying that “I did it and I’ll do it again” why is this alleged? That is like saying the sun will allegedly set this evening. This person did it and seems quite content with the fact that he did it lets give him the credit he deserves. Leave the term alleged for the times when we do not know what has happened.