I would be pefectly content to never have to hear another word on the Peterson Trial. I have never been even minimally interested it. I can't imagine how a man can viciously kill his wife and unborn child. Sinced he was convicted by a jury of his peers, and they have recommended the death pentatly, he deserves to die.
He has committed a heinous act. Why should we as Americans care? Why should we have it constantly shoved down our throats? Heinous crimes occur every single day--crimes and acts more grotesque than this one. Why is this crime any more important? Who cares if he was rich or if Lacy was beautiful? Is a crime less evil if a homeless man committs it? Does it matter less if an ugly woman was killed? He killed his unborn child. Why is this child more important than the thousands of innocent babies that are slaughtered every day under the pretense of "women's choice"? Why don't we hear more about them? What is the national importance of this crime? The Bill that passed Congress recently enabling prosecuters to charge a person with double homicide for killing a pregnant woman is good bill. It certainly puts pro-Murder advocates in a precarious position. But that is a separte issue from this particular crime. We don't need to hear every single detail of this crime on cable news. Court TV is a channel dedicated to this type of journalism. Anyone who is interested can tune in. Why does the media feel it is necessary to keep this case in the spotlight? Are they manufacturing its importance, or do they report it because people are interested and will tune in? If the former is true, then our news people have a problem. There are many more important issues--Iraq, Iran, Israel, the UN, homeland security, abortion, attacks on Christianity, Ukraine, etc--that deserve attention. These are the issues they should be reporting. If the latter is true--that this story is the one Americans want to hear--then Americans have a problem. Why don't Americans want to hear about truly important events? Are we sick of hearing about Iraq? How can we be sick of hearing about our troops in Iraq? Iraq is of the utmost importance. News stations may be running out of bad news to report, and that is a good thing. Would it hurt the news channels to spend 30 minutes a day reporting the good news from Iraq and Afghanistan?
This is case is sensationalism. There is no historical significance in it. It is cheap entertainment, not news. It is not much different than the Simpson Trial. Who cares about it? I believe every criminal out to be tried, convicted, and sentenced. I believe every sentence ought to carried out to the fullest. And I believe the 300 reporters that camped out near the courtroom to cover this trial have wasted a half-year of their life.
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