News

You're watchin' T.V, folks. You're watching the news, waiting for the story about how nine people were murdered by a seemingly random serial killer in your very neighborhood. But first, you have to wait for the story about a kitten that got stuck in a tree for three hours to finish first.
"And the little kitty stayed up there for three hours. Poor widdle kitty. In other news, a few people were murdered today. Moving on to the story about a riot that almost occurred twenty years ago..."
You're sitting there, perhaps your mouth his hanging open. Nine people are dead, and nobody seems to care. If they do lengthen the story at all, it will actually tell you nothing important. Pay close attention to the news: when somebody gets murdered, the news people either don't know jack about the suspects, or they don't think that's necessary. But, they do know that the families are very sad and that the killer could be anywhere. So they exploit it: if you watch the news,
you'll see that there is a lot of crap about how sad the families are, showing some poor kids' mother cry, rather than telling you to look for the prime suspect. Sure, some television shows will give you the details on the prime suspect and will tell you to phone the cops if you find him. Unfortunately, they will only tell you these important details about ten years after the victim died and not on a news show. It's helpful to have shows like America's Most Wanted, but they only very rarely give us useful information quickly enough.

My point is that the news stations, quite simply, suck. They never tell you anything that you will actually need to know. So far, the only station that will ever give you anything that might be useful on a regular basis is that BBC news channel. Unfortunately, all of the stories involve world politics-which may be interesting and a good thing to know, but they don't tell you about what's going on in your city. You wanna know about that serial killer who just massacred nine people? Here's the gist of the response you'll get from the news people: Too bad, asshole, we don't want to tell you anything important 'til after he kills ya! Think about it, folks.