Sick Mainstream

Again yesterday I was trapped at a Secure Undisclosed Location where CNN was being involuntarily beamed forth. The particular fetish of the day was their upcoming interview with John Mark Karr. (Why is it when you’re in the media’s sights you suddenly get three names? John Mark Karr, George W. Bush, Lee Harvey Oswald, et al.) We can’t begin to catalogue all the things that are wrong with this. First and foremost, he’s just creepy. If his head fit his body he’d probably look a little more mainstream. But the big issue here is why are they giving uninterrupted face time to a child molester? What’s the possible commercial gain? The laugh-out-loud part of the CNN teasers was the anchor reading viewer e-mails about the segment. I’ll reduce and paraphrase the e-mails for you: “You suck! STFU! Get that sick F*** off the air!” I call this the domestic violence model of journalism. “They must love us because they beat us.”

As for Mr. Karr, got a little question for you. What exactly where you doing Thailand when you suddenly volunteered to be a suspect in the Original Dead White Girl case? Why do single white men go to Thailand? Was it to volunteer at the Wee Tikes Playground and Boarding House? And why did you pick that particular time to remember you were a suspect? Spend all your money on Ring Pops and Ferris Wheel rides for your new best friends and needed a lift home?

Ares

(ps. If you missed it, look at the left side of the picture & you’ll see why it fits.)