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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Well, TV is on the news not only nationally but internationally as well. The infamous Glenview Punch has made Twin Cities NewsTalk up in Minneapolis, as well as the Daily Mail in the UK.
"Sad" doesn't even begin to describe this, and IMO says far less about TV than it does about the boundless appetite for prurience and scandal that is endemic with our race. As Johnny Cash once sang "Bad news travels like wildfire, good news travels slow". The church I attend here in TV fills thousands of shoeboxes each year with food, treats, necessities, etc. as part of "Operation Christmas Child" which are then distributed in various third-world countries. I doubt that "news" of that extends more than a few blocks from the church. But this news about an (apparently) alcohol-fueled rage and the tragic, though in reality accidental, death of another person has wings!
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that the Internet in general and Social Media in particular will become, in the end, the greatest evil our society has ever been plagued with.
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Pretty amazing that it made national news, especially during a weekend that saw 32 people, 8 fatally shot in Chicago alone. But let's not report
that.
Shortly after I moved from NYC to a small upstate city 36 years ago, a local man got out of bed at 3 AM, while his wife remained asleep, drove to a nearby farm and raped a pig (yes, a 4 legged swine). This made national news as well, I got call from friends asking what kind of place I moved to. Every day good deeds probably outnumber bad deeds by a hundred to one, but yet we all know what the news reports.