Leave 'Em Alone!

i'm sickened by the media and how they can drive desperate, helpless people literally to their deaths. how sick must you be to derive satisfaction from other people's very personal problems. it's quite plain that britney needs help--stop shoving cameras and waving bright white lights in her face. the paparazzi that constantly hounded diana practically murdered her. and the latest casualty of the media was a former reporter for WDIV-4. she admitted to having problems managing her personal life. why dredge it up again before the cameras, especially when she was trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of her life and professional career--all while struggling with depression? she even asked the station not to air the story because it would sabotage her new career in Lansing. what happened to respect for fellow colleagues? and i'm sure many don't even remember her from her time here in Detroit; why even bother running a story about her broken life? have we as a society become so smug and arrogant about our 'perfect' little selves that we can't feel any compassion for those whose lives are in shambles... that we must lord it over the 'fallen mighty' by rubbing their flaws like mud in the face? i don't even know the woman, but her death broke my heart... because i've been there before. sure, my issues weren't aired for all of metro Detroit, but i do know what it's like to feel alone and to want death above anything else. fortunately, someone helped me through it. if only the media had thought of that before they ran her story.

*sigh*

all i can say is that i've had it. and to the callous media... shame on you.