I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.
Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.
I know that gossip comes with a territory. It's a professional hazard, and while initially, I'd get a little riled, I''ve now learnt to handle it well. And honestly speaking, it's all very good publicity, isn't it?
It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.
I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.
Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It's exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy.
People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.
I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?