While I don't have all the facts, I know enough to say that this Casey Anthony trial is a huge waste of public attention. Why the hell do we care? Let me say this before I go on to much of a tirade here, this story is, in fact, a tragedy. Someone, a child, lost their life. That's what's important here. It's also important to find the person who did it, put them on trial, find them guilty, and throw them in jail for a long, long time. Weather you believe Casey Anthony killed her daughter or not is absolutely irrelevant. Again, it's a tragedy, and not to get all desensitized here, but this sort of thing happens all the time. Doesn't make it right, but it also means this particular case is not special. The main reason it is getting the attention it's getting is the strange twists and turns that happened during all the investigations done by 24/7 news outlets with nothing better to do than find a story and blow it out of the water. Yes, this whole thing is an escape to your shitty life, a distraction to having to eat another frozen turkey dinner for lunch at your job. That's what entertainment is meant to do. The news isn't really supposed to be entertaining, but entertainment makes money. I am not saying anything new by saying that national news outlets are "infotainment," meant to entertain with news stories, but it's true. The news, when presented as just the facts, is boring. Interesting content creates viewers which creates advertising revenue, which creates dollars in pockets of people in charge.
As I said, people like to be entertained and taken away from their shitty lives. Casey Anthony probably killed her kid. Sad. Now we all get to watch as things unfold, twists and turns, just like a movie or a TV show. Outstanding. There is no fucking reason for you to drop your regularly scheduled programming on CBS at 1:15 in the afternoon to show the verdict being read. You can do that for O.J. You could do that for someone who is actually famous. You don't do that for Casey Anthony, who has no reason to be paid attention to. She is only famous because there was a slow news day back in 2008, where the producers of the 24/7 news outlets had nothing else to talk about, so they picked up this child missing, and eventually child murder story to fill air time. Not saying that the public shouldn't be told about these types of events, but this happens a lot, like, more than you probably even realize. And they just picked this one. And we all have to hear about it during the slow news periods like early July. The only reason I care is because it's sad. I don't care what happens to Casey Anthony. I don't really like the fact that I am aware who she is. It's a culture that is so full of itself and it's greed, it makes us all worse off. A lot of people got rich off this, I promise you.
It's all bullshit. Throw away your television.
As I said, people like to be entertained and taken away from their shitty lives. Casey Anthony probably killed her kid. Sad. Now we all get to watch as things unfold, twists and turns, just like a movie or a TV show. Outstanding. There is no fucking reason for you to drop your regularly scheduled programming on CBS at 1:15 in the afternoon to show the verdict being read. You can do that for O.J. You could do that for someone who is actually famous. You don't do that for Casey Anthony, who has no reason to be paid attention to. She is only famous because there was a slow news day back in 2008, where the producers of the 24/7 news outlets had nothing else to talk about, so they picked up this child missing, and eventually child murder story to fill air time. Not saying that the public shouldn't be told about these types of events, but this happens a lot, like, more than you probably even realize. And they just picked this one. And we all have to hear about it during the slow news periods like early July. The only reason I care is because it's sad. I don't care what happens to Casey Anthony. I don't really like the fact that I am aware who she is. It's a culture that is so full of itself and it's greed, it makes us all worse off. A lot of people got rich off this, I promise you.
It's all bullshit. Throw away your television.
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