On Becoming What You Hate: Local News Edition
OK - I think I have mentioned this before once or twice, but I can’t stand the tendancy of local news outlets to pound on the local angle for the big stories. You know, something happens in France, or Iraq, or something like that, and the local news digs until they find a person who has been there, or has an a cousin who once knew the best friend of one of the people who may have been involved, or some crap like that. Now, there is a certain amount of newsworthiness to this sort of thing, but it seems like our locals here take it to the extreme - there are days and days and days worth of spots about local people who once saw a picture of the place that was bombed and thought it was pretty. Or whatever.
But here I go doing the same damn thing… I was reading about the shootings in the Atlanta courthouse, and realized that he lives in the same area of town as my inlaws. I found myself halfway through a nonsenseical post desgined soley to state that I have some remote connection with this story.
Pathetic, I know.
Even worse is how I structure this as a minirant against people who do this, confesss that I was about to do it without actually doing it (thereby not being one of those people), but totally doing it, too. My site!
