Knowledge is Power? Not in This Case....

For someone who has a journalism degree, I sure hate the media.  I mean really, really hate.

I think people in general are more afraid now than they were before this interweb era.  Every day I look at sites like MSN and Yahoo! and every day I tell myself that I'm not going to read the news anymore. No matter which site you go to, they have nothing good to say.  But somehow, they keep sucking me in.

They report on such things as a girl who is being attacked by some flesh-eating parasite that she contracted while going ziplining on a vacation. Now I bet tons of people who had "go ziplining" on their "bucket lists" are going to be too afraid to go, even though this was most likely the rarest of cases and it was just her bad luck. 

I just wish more people would use their power for good.  Everyone I talk to likes to read good news, and I think good news sells too, not just bad news.  I think more and more people are getting frustrated with the media fuleing the fire and giving bad people more ideas on how they can be even worse. All of the knowledge I now have from the crap the media gives to me has not made me more powerful.  It has made me more afraid and thus feeling more weak.  Why is the media okay with this?  If I were a news anchor, I'd want to go home and kill myself every single day after reporting the news.

Maybe this is me just being my pessimistic self, but even if it is, to you, dear Media, I give a giant EFF YOU for making everyones lives more miserable.  Now you sit there and think about what you've done.

Thus endith my rant for today.