The one real problem I have with the whole Scott Peterson trial is the fact that I have to hear about it on a nightly basis on the national news. Why?!?
I understand it’s a pretty bad crime when a guy kills his pregnant wife, but why is this national news? Shouldn’t they be airing news that applies to all of us? Maybe instead of an hour special on this shit, they could air something like all the shitty things our president is doing or all the corruption in every part of the political system which cost people jobs and education.
This is worthy of a top story? Yea, a LOCAL one, not a national story. You can’t tell me there is something that is more important to be showing on a national level than some piece of shit that kills his wife and kid.
What impact does this trial have on us has a nation? Absolutely fucking none, that’s what. The reason this is on the news it that it feeds into that soap opera bullshit people seem to really care about. It gives the people who have that false sense of concern about other people they don’t know, never met, didn’t have any idea they even excised until they seen this on the news, then all of the sudden that instant feeling of care and sorrow gets kicked in.
It’d be nice to see real news on the news, and not glorified local stories there to hide what we should be seeing.