Fear has always been a mortal object that drives us. It keeps us alive in moments of true danger and takes advantage of our brains to keep us on edge. When used properly its one of the more useful emotions. However when played on, when it is manipulated it turns from a helper to a crippling vice. It can destruct our sense of security, break down our minds, and fray what little sanity we start out with.
I understand that the bombing in Boston was a terrible tragedy and i would agree with that. I feel for the family's of those lost in the explosion. I am truly sorrowful of the events that transpired. This does not give the media the right to play to footage of the bombing, of people dying on the news multiple times in one single hour. Even now it s a focal point of the media's investigation. You can Google any national news website and find multiple articles detailing graphical maps, computerized reenactments, and other similar showings. For an unknown amount of time shortly after the bombing that was a picture circulating on national website of one of the cameramen before it a disclaimer that the following picture was not appropriate for sensitive viewers. If you ignore that a picture of the man with his legs literally blown off is shown. They display him like some kind of monster without legs as if this will help us understand further that this truly was a tragedy.
I know the situation, I understand people died, but shouldn't we then give them respect and mourn them without having to be bombarded with news coverage and media drivel at every single turn. To look at it from the stand point of a family who lost someone in the bombing. Every time you turn on the TV go on the internet and even pick up a paper, all you see is more pictures and words detailing the carnage that took your loved one away.
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