Heres what I really think about what happened in Tucson.
What happened in Tucson was the climax and tragic outcome of our current media frenzy. The desires of the American people has created a media vitriol with promotes the voicing of increasingly disparate political opinions. What this ends in is the shouting of pundits and both right and left wise skewed radio hosts voicing their opinions. This has deadly consequences when the general public has no hints that the news they are being informed of is distorted by the yellow journalism which is ubiquitous in the American Media.
Although it has been very opposed theory, I still consider the American media to have a part, even if it is a small one in this tragedy. With the constant bombardment of the American people with news via countless outlets, we are drowned in the amount of different news sources. With the innumerable ways of attaining news, as a news consumer, we are more attuned to those stories and opinions that are superfluously sensational.
This all contributed to an atmosphere that can have devastating consequences.
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