Children learn by our words as well as our actions. The news industry caters to and exacerbates the public's seemingly insatiable desire to wallow vicariously in the suffering of bereaved and grief-stricken relatives. No display of emotion seems too personal or too painful to examine and highlight. The Egyptian airliner crash was a feast of bad taste. Commentators reached the ultimate depravity as they eagerly reported that the doomed airplane briefly recovered from its seaward plunge only to come apart in the air.
Relatives get that journalistic bonus.
The press and television can both do better than this mindless competition with soap operas and daytime television talk shows. No need exists or good purpose is served by this neurotic feeding frenzy on human pain and anguish. I am served by Potosi Water Supply and live just outside the city limits. My water comes straight out of a large city main on Maple into a Potosi meter, then into my house. When the changeover happened, I noticed a tremendous increase in the amount of chlorine, which resulted in the purchase of a kitchen tap water filter.