I was listening to an interview with Angie Gregg, (the
daughter of kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro) and she hopes that people
understand her father's actions are not a reflection on her family."We don't have monster in our
blood," she said.
But, that’s a lie: we
all have “monster blood” -- including you who are reading this blog, as the
American people lust after every salacious detail of evil crimes.
My CNN Breaking News app alerts me to evil doings all the
time. Beep, beep – “joker” guns down
patrons in movie theater, gunman kills kids in elementary school, bomb goes off
at Boston Marathon. Keep your phone
alerts on as the next horror might be this morning!
CNN covered these events wall-to-wall, and quickly pivoted
from the Boston bombers to extensive coverage of an evil man who for ten years
tortured and imprisoned three young girls.
If you don’t like the tabloid style focus on tragedy, it
isn’t CNN’s fault; they’re only reporting what the public wants to hear. And as the crimes escalate in horror, so do
CNN’s ratings as Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan roll TV specials promising
“new details.”
(I have to admit, I’m one of those people who watches these
specials.)
The escape of the girls who were held hostage is sadly, not
to freedom, but now to another kind of imprisonment, where they will once again
be robbed of being who they are. They’ll
be seen and known only in terms of what was done
to them rather than who they are.
In the end, ALL of us, including myself, have committed a
despicable crime against these girls every time we yearn for the details of
this crime.
The victims haven’t gone outside in ten years. And now, they
can’t go outside without being mobbed by reporters, and without having cameras
and microphones shoved in their faces at every turn.
Our “monster blood”
is doing it again to them.
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