These days are getting blue...

[rogueslayer452]

I'm pretty sure everyone's heard the news already, since my FList literally exploded yesterday. It's a tragic, shocking and devastating moment for us all. It's hard to believe or even comprehend what happened and I'm still unsure how I should react to it all. Without placing this post in with all the others, as I'm sure nearly everyone is sick and tired of getting depressed when someone mentions it again I'm just going to send my deepest condolesnces to Heath's family, his friends and his little girl for their loss. But I am disgusted at the media at the moment. Really.

To top this off I watched "Home" the other day, and I'd gotten tears in my eyes. Out of all the SPN episodes this is the one that does it for me. I honestly can't explain why, since they've had emotional moments before that make me go "OH BOYS!" and reach through the screen and hug them. But this was a classic S1 episode that really brought all those moments together later on.

I've also been thinking about having a marathon of Carnivale after I'm done with SPN rewatching. Since I have both seasons now (yay!) it'll be awesome.

Nothing else to report on that front. I'll be having theories for my fandoms soon. I know I've said that before but it's taking longer than I expected, between RL and everything else I've been so preoccupied. That I have to get them organized, since I know what I want to say it's a matter of writing them down into coherent sentences. But they're coming.

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[wordsleadmeon.livejournal.com]

But I am disgusted at the media at the moment. Really.


Man, I'm so there with you. Though I commend CTV Vancouver's entertainment coverage for sitting down and going through some of the misconceptions that were floating around. On the whole, though, the coverage has been disgusting. Why report something as fact when it isn't?

The whole thing still seems sort of unreal.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I know I shouldn't expect decency from the media, since they think anything horrible happening to any celebrity is a freaking dance party, but would it kill them to lay off this kind of crap? Celebrity or not, this is a death of a human being, not some mutant freakshow you can publicize over the airwaves like a circus. Think about Anna Nicole Smith and how everyone was all over her death. How about a little respect for the deceased for once, Hollywood and media people.

[wordsleadmeon.livejournal.com]

That, in a nutshell, is what's wrong the the media/a good chunk of what's wrong with North American culture anymore. They report this stuff to a sickening degree because some people actually WANT to see it. Personally I nearly vomited when NYC's CW showed footage of the body bag on a promo for the 10 o'clock news during OTH. There was no need for that footage to even exist. I read on someone's journal that they'd heard that his family found out through the media, too, which makes the whole thing so much worse. It's like, can't you sit on something long enough to let the authorities make a few phonecalls? *sigh* Yes, people may be famous, but we don't know them, and their families have more of a right to privacy than we do to know exactly what's going on at every moment.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

My God, that's terrible about Heath's family finding out through the media. They should be the first people to find out before any news about it should've been released. That's just...I am speechless. That is downright blasphemous.

People are naturally curious, but our society has gone from that to morbidly curious. I blame reality TV and the media for that.

Someone mentioned that Heath wasn't very pleased with the media either, that's why he wasn't in much news before. He managed to keep himself away from the spotlight and his family business private. And then this has to happen, going against everything he believed in. *shakes head*