Friday March 12, 2004
I'm weary due to elusive and erratic sleep.
And wary because I was sickened on so many levels by a recent news broadcast. There was no warning so that I could avoid it, should I have chosen and I think I would have chosen that - some things just aren't worth knowing immediately. Or maybe ever. Or maybe only when you are in the right frame of mind and only I can decide when that might be.
This I find more disturbing than anything the entertainment industry has presented to date (and that I have seen or read). Because it's not fiction. And it really doesn't affect my daily life, except in that it has extended the limits of my understanding of humanity's capacity for depravity and downright evil.
And in the media's zeal to scoop each other, apparently the thought of warning others was overlooked or ignored. It's extremely difficult for me to believe someone in the chain of hands through which news flows wasn't concerned about the emotional impact.
If I am disturbed (and I believe my readers will be as well), I wonder how children, especially sensitive, precocious ones who may have been watching alone, have been affected.
I'm not watching any more news programs for a while. I think the CRTC should step in and reprimand the network forthwith.
If you haven't figured out which story I am talking about, and want to know, a link is in the 'continued' part of this posting.
I'm going to try to put it all out of my mind now.
[WARNING: extremely disturbing content involving human remains]
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