Tsunami of Exploitation

I was waiting for it to happen, the first picture of the first Tsunami wave as it comes ashore.

Tsunami Picture

Apparently, the above image is the first wave as it rolls in. Tsunami’s do not take place Hollywood style, with a single, mammoth wave blocking out the sun. But rather, a Tsunami is actually a group of waves that build up and drive deeper ashore with each one, then tapers off.

I would imagine no one in this image is still alive, despite the fact they are running like hell.

I predict that there will be more and more video released as well. With a swath of destruction so vast, and beaches so full of hotels, security camera footage is just around the corner as the ratings hungry media continues their Tsunami of exploitation.

That is the part that saddens me the most now. The media is now trying to find the next worst horror story to deliver it on nightly news. Interviews with a six year old that lost both parents; the mother that had to let go of one of her children to save the other; the elderly couple that was swept away for lack of strength to hang on as the rescue boat approached. And we are eating it up.

What Tsunami swept away our souls and how do we get them back?

James
January 4th, 2005 4:47 pm

While I applaud your metaphor, I’m sure our ’souls’ were swept away long ago. We live in a society fascinated by the lives of others if those lives are horrifically or beautifully fantastic.

This is why the media spends days on creating celebrity for people like Laci Peterson and boosting the celebrity of people like Jennifer Aniston. One was sadly killed, creating a ton of sentiment and wonder at her terrible demise because people are secretly happy it wasn’t them. The other is revered on shows touting what it’s like to be insanely rich and famous because people secretly resent or want to be like her.

These are just two examples. But they both say a lot about our intrusive nature when it comes to watching, but not much about us when it comes to doing. “America: We like to watch.”

pat
January 11th, 2005 12:18 pm

yeah but now we don’t have so much of a population problem