The McStays Need to McStay Out of the news

Baby Delaney

04 March 2010

Why does America act so stunned a family of 4 just disappears into thin air? I am not stunned in the least.

I have this truly foolish thing I do - it's called caring about stories stories that amount to something and can make me think instead of speculate. The undeniable fact that I have seen folks making an attempt to make their own concepts out of this story entertains me seriously. Joe Dick may be exclaiming the family all dropped acid and rode on the backs of unicorns to an alternative universe, John Doe could say that they all held hands and jumped into the Grand Ravine .

I am not singling out the McStay family here - there's plenty of moronic stories out there that need to take lengthy walks off short piers. I have frequently puzzled how quality, consummate journalism takes a rear seat to the culturally-deficient stories we all have forced down our throats on a regular basis. Is it because America is getting dumber? Are our reporters losing sight of the want for quality writing that made them hound the career in the 1st place? Or, is America just more content with rubbish and the writers assuage them with garbage? I would really like to hear back from an older newshound on this to give me a better viewpoint on how our obsession with comprehensive crap has gotten so robust over time. I am sure if the 1st moon landing were to occur today, there would be some variety of celebrity hot subject to replace it and filch all the glory. If the news broke today that Kennedy had been shot, I'll safely bet that the bulk of USA citizens would be obsessed with TMZ or some other biased gossip site to get updates on the event. It'd come to be a Matrix man threw a rock at his head at 2k feet per second and vanished into the following dimension. I believe at my age, many of us would expect me to be writing about purposeless American Idol and celebrity crap. Taking a look at the blogs of some of my fellow teen writers, I know for certain that I predict it out of them. I'm sure that the secret to being a good journalist is quality writing, but gripping quality writing. I will be able to never lose sight of that brass ring, and I will be able to never lower myself to trade real writing for perspectives or fans.