Local News

I never watch the local news, and I will tell you why. It's a money making business and is not there to report events going on in the world. I don't even care about biases or other things like that. One of the phrases that drive me crazy is this: "Coming up tomorrow night on the 11pm news." If you are reporting the news, how do you know what is going to happen tomorrow so you can report tomorrow night? If you already have the story completed, why are you not reporting it to me tonight instead of tomorrow? The other thing that drives me crazy, is how there is almost always a story on how to avoid cancer. Or some study on what to do to lower your risk of cancer. All the time on the previews of the news they will say, "Coming up next, a new development that will effect millions of people to lower their risk of cancer." Please end all the money making local news.

Complaint Time

So here goes. I am going to be typing this as I think, and I am too lazy to edit, so there might be many spelling errors. It's very sad that Trayvon Martin was shot and killed, but it drives me crazy that we become fascinated over certain cases and not others. Literally tens of thousands of kids are killed each year, but the American public pick out 2-3 cases to make personal. This year is the year of Trayvon Martin. We take the very few facts we know and we spot issues, we analyze, we judge, we assume, we fill in holes in the facts with what we want to believe, and then finally we come up with a conclusion. Then we run with that conclusion. Then we can go and protest. Either we take the stand that this young boy was killed because of some overzealous neighborhood watch wanna-be cop that racially profiled and then chased down Trayvon. Or we look at the boy as a demon child that smoked marijuana and was suspended from school and was on top of Mr. Zimmerman and beating him up and Mr. Zimmerman needed his shoot Trayvon to protect his life or to protect himself from extreme danger. I personally don't care what side you pick, but just pick a side and then move on with your life and go mow your neighbors lawn.