Irony...sometimes it's subtle. Other times it's like the proverbial bull in a china shop...
It was six years ago that the twin towers in New York fell after the brutal, brutal terrorist attack. Tonight, on CNN they were doing a little tribute to that fateful day to help remember the events of that day. All in all, a noble gesture.
What wasn't so noble, however, was the news crawl that was making its way across the bottom of the tv screen. While images of the collapsing buildings filled most of the screen, the news on the bottom was informing me that Kayne West is blaming MTV for Britney Spears's recent poor performance on Video Music Awards.
I sat staring at the tv in disbelief. How could they let this go on? As the two complete opposite ends of the news spectrum shared screen time, I just got angry. Why are Kayne West's comments on Britney Spears and MTV newsworthy? What difference does it make? Ordinarily, it's easy enough to just ignore such a thing, but when it was on screen up against the most defining moment of our generation, it just stood out as a horrible hypocrisy. It felt like a joke that might air during an episode of The Soup. I couldn't believe it was really happening.
Ugh...so frustrating.
Anyway, I guess the lesson to be learned from this is to try to remember the things that matter...
Or at least ignore the other stuff.
Much luv,
Rob
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2 comments:
At least it wasn't a story on Kanye + Britney with the news crawl talking about 9/11.
or worse yet, and i can see this happening, a story on 9/11 that is interupted by latebreaking news about Kanye and Britney which then takes over and snugs the rest.
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