Feeling Hyped

I think my most negative experience with the media happened when I was watching the 11:00 news with my girlfriend and her family. At the time, Florida was about to vote for a new governor, the Scot Peterson trial was coming to a close, there had been a local protest for the war in Iraqi, many exciting things were happening in our community. So..... what was the big story?(drum roll) Shit. No literally Shit. The top story that evening was that in the downtown area, a homeless man had defecated in a flower bed outside of a respectable restaurant. To make this story even more ridiculous, a reporter was called in live at the "scene of the crime" and during the broadcast a man in a black hooded jacket was behind the reporter giving the camera the finger and making pelvic thrusting motions at the man giving the story. The restaurant owner was baffled as to why any one would commit this heinous act of villainy. I thought the story was pretty stupid but my girlfriend was outraged. She lamented at how there were so many important events happening in the world a all we get is "a guy shits on the street." Her father, looked up from his book and laughed "its all the same thing if you ask me." Needless to say it was a slow news day.