Ugh.
I just need the satisfaction of expressing my opinion somewhere, even if it's not in direct response to the original email. Because this person is awesome at opening their mouth no matter what, and let's face it - I'm not mad at him, specifically. It would probably be looked at as cruel to single-out a practically one-line email stating that Casey's remains might have been found like this:
Ok, firstly, they *might* be her remains. Granted they were found close to her home, but there has been no confirmation yet.
And you know what - even if they are - who cares?! I mean honestly, don’t think I believe the death of a child, or anyone else for that matter, is a trivial matter. But I am damn well sick-and-tired of the whole host of attention this woman and her family are getting *after* the fact. Anyone with a shred of common sense knew months ago that the poor little girl was dead. There just wasn’t any information to create another plausible outcome, no matter how much Casey Anthony may have tried to promote otherwise.
What really burns my ass in situations like this is:
Not only is it on every freakin’ news station imaginable that would remotely care, but at least one of the ladies I was networking with at lunch got a call from some relative who was watching the news to tell her this. Seriously. We’re all sitting around trying to go on with business-as-usual, and you call up from your house because you have nothing better to freakin’ do than sit around watching someone else’s life play out - to tell someone something like this?! How pathetic. And now, I also get an email about it on the HASH group?! The ‘we’re not supposed to talk about political stuff and reality too much’ email group. Nevermind I subscribe to Marketwatch, and they sent me something, plus I had been out and heard already, because the restaurant my lunch meeting was in had TV’s and they were all playing the CNN coverage. I mean, where was all the media attention before Caylee was even dead? ‘Oh, well, we didn’t know anything was wrong’. No, that’s right. We didn’t. And why not? Because something that *might* happen, and someone who *might* do something, doesn’t sell news, does it. If it did, maybe charities like Coalition for the Homeless and others would be making more news than the obligatory “it’s cold out, where will the homeless sleep’ stories to make news execs feel better about themselves. What about covering ongoing domestic violence? How about we put some of these assholes who cut us off in parking lots and jerks who have to cut lines and all the other socially-unacceptable behaviors on the news 24/7? If you’ve got nothing concrete to talk about, why not talk about organizations who are helping women who have gotten out of prison to get their lives and children back. Let’s talk about what’s really going on with teens and the culture that makes girls think having a baby is a better alternative than going to college.
But no. We’re not going to talk about that. And you can tell me until the cows come home that covering this story for months-on-end will somehow ‘help the next possible victim’. Bullshit. We won’t *see* the next possible victim until there is one. Then that poor person will be all over the news and little Casey will be reduced to being another sensationalistic special that gets run every couple years. Because between then and now no other kids will have died, and we’ll surely have to be reminded how evil the world can be.
Again. And Again. And Again.
Ok, firstly, they *might* be her remains. Granted they were found close to her home, but there has been no confirmation yet.
And you know what - even if they are - who cares?! I mean honestly, don’t think I believe the death of a child, or anyone else for that matter, is a trivial matter. But I am damn well sick-and-tired of the whole host of attention this woman and her family are getting *after* the fact. Anyone with a shred of common sense knew months ago that the poor little girl was dead. There just wasn’t any information to create another plausible outcome, no matter how much Casey Anthony may have tried to promote otherwise.
What really burns my ass in situations like this is:
Not only is it on every freakin’ news station imaginable that would remotely care, but at least one of the ladies I was networking with at lunch got a call from some relative who was watching the news to tell her this. Seriously. We’re all sitting around trying to go on with business-as-usual, and you call up from your house because you have nothing better to freakin’ do than sit around watching someone else’s life play out - to tell someone something like this?! How pathetic. And now, I also get an email about it on the HASH group?! The ‘we’re not supposed to talk about political stuff and reality too much’ email group. Nevermind I subscribe to Marketwatch, and they sent me something, plus I had been out and heard already, because the restaurant my lunch meeting was in had TV’s and they were all playing the CNN coverage. I mean, where was all the media attention before Caylee was even dead? ‘Oh, well, we didn’t know anything was wrong’. No, that’s right. We didn’t. And why not? Because something that *might* happen, and someone who *might* do something, doesn’t sell news, does it. If it did, maybe charities like Coalition for the Homeless and others would be making more news than the obligatory “it’s cold out, where will the homeless sleep’ stories to make news execs feel better about themselves. What about covering ongoing domestic violence? How about we put some of these assholes who cut us off in parking lots and jerks who have to cut lines and all the other socially-unacceptable behaviors on the news 24/7? If you’ve got nothing concrete to talk about, why not talk about organizations who are helping women who have gotten out of prison to get their lives and children back. Let’s talk about what’s really going on with teens and the culture that makes girls think having a baby is a better alternative than going to college.
But no. We’re not going to talk about that. And you can tell me until the cows come home that covering this story for months-on-end will somehow ‘help the next possible victim’. Bullshit. We won’t *see* the next possible victim until there is one. Then that poor person will be all over the news and little Casey will be reduced to being another sensationalistic special that gets run every couple years. Because between then and now no other kids will have died, and we’ll surely have to be reminded how evil the world can be.
Again. And Again. And Again.