Broader Societal Implications

The dinosaur media breathlessly told the world yesterday that a player paid more per year to knock people down than most folks are able to accumulate in a lifetime gunned down his baby's mama. He was then seized by pangs of conscience and did the right thing by ending himself. The same gutter press was talking up some actress involved in a 4 am punch up at a "nightclub" earlier in the week. In each instance, the MSM attempted to tout something bigger than the true voyeurism that their sensational reports were. In the football story, the spotlight is focused on concussion syndrome. In the former child star case, the glare is on substance abuse. In both instances though there is no moral redemption, just sad, empty, unchurched individuals, committing the acts or getting a vicarious thrill through watching them.