Just curious as I always seem to be in the minority on these things. I don't watch, care about, or pay any attention to these things. Every year or whatever there is some huge media following of these "high profile" murder trials. Each time the media makes some huge scene about it, it's on every channel all the time, everyone and their mother has some dumb fucking opinion about it, and think they know who is guilty or innocent.
Honestly, I just don't get it. We have a court system - let them deal with it. I am completely baffled by society's fascination with utterly irrelevant shit simply because the media tells them they need to care.
It's kind of like an analogy I always use. (This is not a real news story btw) But it's like the news showing a story of a guy - it's a quick clip, and the guy says "People who use sofas are morons, I don't need a sofa and all I use is bean bags". And suddenly people are discussing it saying "Yeah, that guys is douche, I like sofas - I think bean bags are stupid". No no no no no no no. There's no need to discuss it, there's no story, they simply went out and found some dude, who had something dumb to say, and put it in your face. You have absolutely no need to even form an opinion about what the guy said, or care in the slightest what he said. But because you have a sofa suddenly you're letting yourself get drug into some irrelevant bullshit. People seem to forget the news is a far cry from a service to bring you "news" anymore, it's a platform for advertisements. It's a business for them to get viewers, so they can sell advertising spots and make money. The random moron spouting off about sofas isn't news - neither is this zimmerman trial news. It's just random shit happening in some random part of the country, and it's not even unique or special because the same thing they're reporting is happening a hundred other times that day in every other state. But they decided to pick this one story, make a scene about it, and try to lure you in to watching. So they can let Burger King and Pepsi bombard your ass with ads.
Could you imagine if the media spin on these things wasn't there, you didn't have the TV blasting you with the biased and possibly falsified nuances of the case, and someone told you about it -- "OMG Did you fucking hear about this shit~!?!?!? There is a guy who shot another dude in Florida?!?!?! Isn't that the fucking craziest shit you've ever heard in your life?!?! OMG I'm soo fucking interested in it, I'm going to start forming opinions on the whole case by any and all unsubstantiated facts I can find!!!" -- Pretty sure you'd think the person was fucking retarded right?
/rant
Honestly, I just don't get it. We have a court system - let them deal with it. I am completely baffled by society's fascination with utterly irrelevant shit simply because the media tells them they need to care.
It's kind of like an analogy I always use. (This is not a real news story btw) But it's like the news showing a story of a guy - it's a quick clip, and the guy says "People who use sofas are morons, I don't need a sofa and all I use is bean bags". And suddenly people are discussing it saying "Yeah, that guys is douche, I like sofas - I think bean bags are stupid". No no no no no no no. There's no need to discuss it, there's no story, they simply went out and found some dude, who had something dumb to say, and put it in your face. You have absolutely no need to even form an opinion about what the guy said, or care in the slightest what he said. But because you have a sofa suddenly you're letting yourself get drug into some irrelevant bullshit. People seem to forget the news is a far cry from a service to bring you "news" anymore, it's a platform for advertisements. It's a business for them to get viewers, so they can sell advertising spots and make money. The random moron spouting off about sofas isn't news - neither is this zimmerman trial news. It's just random shit happening in some random part of the country, and it's not even unique or special because the same thing they're reporting is happening a hundred other times that day in every other state. But they decided to pick this one story, make a scene about it, and try to lure you in to watching. So they can let Burger King and Pepsi bombard your ass with ads.
Could you imagine if the media spin on these things wasn't there, you didn't have the TV blasting you with the biased and possibly falsified nuances of the case, and someone told you about it -- "OMG Did you fucking hear about this shit~!?!?!? There is a guy who shot another dude in Florida?!?!?! Isn't that the fucking craziest shit you've ever heard in your life?!?! OMG I'm soo fucking interested in it, I'm going to start forming opinions on the whole case by any and all unsubstantiated facts I can find!!!" -- Pretty sure you'd think the person was fucking retarded right?
/rant
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