I think that sort of goes along the same line with how the media treats this stuff sometimes. Obviously they have to report it, and of course TV media is, like anything on TV, concerned with ratings above all else, but that doesn't mean that I still can't be disgusted by some of the things they do. The night it happened I was at my moms and of course they have a Terror in Boston title they've made with big ole letters and stuff. That goes way beyond reporting; doing stuff like that is just using people's deaths for ratings. Then of course they're going to show the video over and over. I can still remember how it was on 9/11. I've seen those planes crash into the towers more times than I ever needed to (and I wasn't even trying to stay glued to the news or anything like that), and when they got footage of someone falling from one of the buildings they were sure to put it front and center. It's just sickening. I'm all for reporting the truth of the matter, and not hiding details even if they are upsetting, but there is a difference between that and what they are doing.
I think people become desensitized to this sort of thing, especially when they use extreme wording to describe every situation. I think tragedy applies here, but they overuse such words, and when you do that they start to lose their meaning, so people stop reacting to honest tragedy. Add to that that social media inflating people sense of importance about their own opinions (and that is just my over-inflated opinion) and I think stuff like we're talking about here is inevitable. In all of this we start to forget that this is about trying to catch a couple of cowardly murderers.
