When Will It End?

This is just a little troublesome for me, being a college student looking at a career in broadcasting, but is there anyone else out there who refuses to believe anything someone says on television while being interviewed?

This goes far beyond Ann Coulter and her stonethrowing, I'm talking more on a local level.

You know what I'm talking about... little Johnny from down the street walks into McDonalds and pumps 12 people full of lead, and his best friend's parents are on the news talking about how little Johnny "was a perfect child, and would never do anything like that."

Yeah, ok. And you didn't bust his ass for smoking weed 4 years ago, either.

Or when Bobby (probably from the same street) gets popped while walking the streets at 3 am. There are his parents on television talking about how he was the nicest boy, and he had no enemies. "Who could do such a thing?"

Wrong. Bobby probably had many enemies, and excluding exgirlfriends and guys whose girlfriends Bobby knocked up-- I'm willing to be he stumbled across someone's royal pissing ground on his 3 am stroll... and he probably knew he was.

And of course, who can ignore the hear-wrenching stories of warwidows and the parents of servicemen killed in combat. I'm geting tired of hearing how the recently deceased enlisted because he loved his country.

Bullshit. Not everyone is that patriotic. Seriously. Some enlist to get away from the streets where Johnny and Bobby met their fates. Others joined because it was the only way they were gonne be able to get an education.

Yes, some join to defend this nation-- wait, let me say that into my cell phone so the President hears this-- join to DEFEND this nation, a source of great pride among many people. But everytime someone dies, you have the parents on television with the tradional canned "he loved his country" speech.

You're in denial. Stop lying to us, and tell us what you really think. You get about a week where this country will let you say anything you want and chalk it up to grief-- spill you guts. Shit, even Ms. Coulter will let you slide in that first week.

Stop with the act. The credability of this nation is already ar an all time low-- we can't trust the President, we can't trust our commerical executives, can't trust the newspapers, and now we can't believe what the television tells us.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a world where you can't believe a television.