The media jump from story to story about rapes, murder and whatever else sells newspapers or ad time because people are concerned enough to tune in. The smallest stories spark the biggest outcries because there's a face to be seen. Large stories that involved hundreds, thousands or even millions of people have no face so people don't care as much and it's been like that forever. I've seen many threads in Off-Topic about the suffering or abuse of people en masse so the outcry over the large scale stories does get discussed in here.Inaubryn wrote:Preface: Vick was wrong of whatever it is he actually did. That much can't be argued.
Now: Next time someone, a person that is, is raped, abused, molested, tortured and/or killed, I wanna see threads just like this. I wanna see protests all over the place. It's just very unsettling to me how people die by the tens of thousands everyday, but where's the outcry for them? Where are all those livid folks at? Where's the protesters for New Orleans and other such places and victims?
A dog's an animal. And, I certainly value human life over a dog's. But we see a husband murder his wife and child and we say, "Oh, that's a shame." then flip the TV to our favorite program. These people kill animals and it's, "Oh my gawd! You barbarian! Die then burn in hell!
Controversy. K. Bye.
The abuse of animals on the other hand gets almost no media time whatsoever and it's a shame that it takes a big celeb to draw some attention from the media who are more concerned about small, tragic stories involving people. Sadly, most animal abusers see animals as THEIR property, property that they can do whatever they want to if they feel like it. Vick is typical and it's disgusting to see people treat animals so badly when all they want to do is be your friend.
Me, I have no problem whatsoever with Animal abusers getting media attention.
Kate
