Blog: The News

Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are the suspects for the Boston Marathon bombing. Their faces are plastered across the news. Anchors are talking constantly about the story. The news stations have been ridiculed for giving false accusations, telling the ‘rumors’ too soon. But what they should be called out for is romanticizing the suspects of recent tragedies. America practically fawns over these people. Our curiosities take hold and we keep asking questions.

News stations should limit themselves to the facts, stop speculating. Get a real source, other than just ‘the source’. And nix the constant obsession with getting to know every detail about the people that try to commit mass destruction. Most of these people want attention. That’s why they do it. They know that everyone will want to know their name, everyone will want to know their motive. It’s a terrorist’s dream-everyone will know who they are and why they did it.

News stations will never work for the common good if the common good wants information. All America wants is to know everything. What they need to do is only broadcast breaking news. When they find out who the suspect is-broadcast that. When the law enforcement charges them-broadcast that. Don’t make mini-documentaries on their life. Don’t make what their doing seem glamorous, make it look horrible.

The hardest part of making these tragedies into smaller, breaking news segments, is the fact that they are tragedies. People have lost their lives and their loved ones. And to them, it’s a huge deal. But we have to decide to work together, to stop this from happening again. Make these tragedies look unappealing from every viewpoint. Stop giving them the attention they want and broadcast the punishments the earn instead.