Even More Sensationalism On The News

The latest news in the media is Princess Diana's former butler revealing all these secrets about Diana's life, most notably, her predicting exactly how she was going to die 10 months before it happened. Apparently Mr. Burrell has written a book that divulges shocking news like this as well as all sorts of other details of her life that didn't necessarily need to be revealed to the world at large. Will this woman ever find peace?

To add to my previous post I wanted to add some comments that were posted on the CNN website tonight. These are comments regarding Spc. Shoshana Johnson, one of Lynch's fellow prisoners. The Johnson family believes that Lynch has received more benefits than Johnson for similar injuries. They feel Lynch deserves all of them but Johnson does as well. The family has Jesse Jackson helping to represent them to the media.

"Jackson said he believed the Army treated Lynch differently because of the media coverage surrounding her rescue.

"First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting," Jackson said. "She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado."

Lynch was rescued in a nighttime raid by U.S. Special Forces on April 1, and the Pentagon released videotape of the operation.

But the British Broadcasting Corp. and The Associated Press spoke with staff members at the hospital where Lynch was being treated who said there was no Iraqi military presence at the hospital, no resistance and no need to come in with guns blazing.

The Pentagon bristled at such a suggestion, saying U.S. military forces would not undertake such a risky mission unnecessarily."

Well, it certainly does seem that time is revealing all. Doesn't it?

Dying With Dignity

I have taken far too much time from posting on this blog. So much has changed from my last post that was so many months ago. I have since moved to a new city and worked at a software company and left that job. Now I am doing what I do best - being an unemployed schlub.

The media is once again sensationalizing everything that they can. The biggest news events are Terri Schiavo, Elizabeth Smart, and that girl who got shot up in the Mideast doing her duty in the Mideast, Jessica Lynch.

The Terri Schiavo case bothers me because they won't let this person die. Schiavo is in a vegetative state with spinal fluid where her cerebral cortex used to be. She has been in this state for 13 years and her parents are confident that she can come out of it. That would call for a miracle and everyone knows that outside of the bible they are in short supply. The courts decided that her feeding tube would be removed and almost a week after pulling the tube out so she could die as she wanted, the governor was granted the power to order the tube reinserted. According to Michael Schiavo's attorney, this has probably damaged her internal organs and prolonged her suffering. I say let her die.