For the past month I have been sickened by the handling of the Boston Marathon bombing. I shouldn't be so surprised. The media's at it's best when something terrifying has just happened. I hate that I live in a world where tragedy turns a profit. At one point just a week after the bombing I entered my CNN news application expecting to find a rundown of all the latest world affairs, but was taken aback when every single story on the homepage was regarding the bombing. At least five showing the seemingly innocent face of the young terrorist who was able to outlive his brother/accomplice for a few days. I've seen his face everywhere. They've made him a celebrity. What is a young child supposed to believe about a face that they've seen plastered all of the internet, the television, newspapers and anywhere else other than that this is someone to be revered, that this young man is just as much someone to idolize as a Justin Bieber or a Lil' Wayne. The media holds a very large responsibility in the future of civilization. Media is becoming a much larger social agent than the family, or even the peers, as its infiltrated these agencies and made them a part of it. Family and friends are simply terms for who you talk to on the internet, the ideals that you see on the television, or the celebrities that we so yearn to be. Glorifying the strange and the bizarre as it's seen today, shootings and bombings, it only promotes the idea that if you want to make a change you have to make a boom and the mentally unstable won't hesitate to turn to deviance over therapy, especially considering the state of pharmaceuticals and our over medicated youth. Everything that's in our face 24/7 only points towards destruction as a means to an end, because everybody wants their face plastered all over the news just like a James Holmes or Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The change this society needs may depend on the failure of the original.
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