There is worse pornography than sex on display

I first became aware of this as two aircraft killed people in the World Trade Center and the world media showed us despairing people dying.  We were horrified.  And they we were horrified again and again.  And then we were horrified until we became immune to the horror.  And that is when I realised that this was true pornography.

I saw it again and again after that.  Madelaine McCann, who vanished in Portugal, and the press speculation about the poor child's fate and at whose hands was a prime example of media pornography.

Today I see it yet again.  Some poor deluded kid went on a shooting rampage in Germany.  Tim Kretschmer went on a rampage in Winnenden.  Many are dead, including him.  I'm deeply sorry for all the victims and for their families and young Tim's family.  But there it should stop.

Instead we have theories about his being a loner, troubled, having a collection of horror films.  Well, I expect he did.  That does not make someone take a gun and kill people.  But the pornography of media news machines that must be fed creates all this weirdness out of a simple, tragic, unpleasant incident.

Did you know that a building in Cologne vanished into the ground the other day?

Nor did I until I was told.  It never made our news.  But blood and gore does.  

At least in the UK we are spared the Winnenden incident's press conferences and the eternal rehashing of the incident again and again.  But we do see press conferences far too often.  You know the history and purpose of the thing: a conference intended for the press to get information and distill a report from it.

Lazy journalists show the event live!  But it is not designed for us.  Even so, we get to see people giving halting presentations, or statements read at dictation speed live!

Give me good old fashioned sex broadcast in harsh closeup any day!  It beats the pornography of the news machine hollow.  It's honest!