Regarding murder trials and the idiocy of the American public

I'm vaguely aware that the media is giving extensive coverage to some woman who is now on trial for killing someone. And the only reason I'm aware of even this tidbit of information is because of posts here and coverage elsewhere.

This feeble minded crap all started with the O.J. trial. And the media has found a goldmine in the number of feeble minded people who will pay attention to it.

Then again, perhaps it's some kind of morality play, or soap opera. After all, I guess it beats paying attention to the lunacy going on in our federal and state governments.

Nonetheless, I can't but help see it as proof of the dumbing down of the American public.

No, it started a lot further back than OJ.

Plus I could really care less about most of these "law and order" sagas. Fits right in with the dumbing down of the American public, and validates my notion that critical thinking is history.

Tired Old Cynic

sensational court cases are like a one a decade event starting in the 1900s.

Of course Court TV went under, so perhaps there is not that MUCH interest.

They changed their name to TruTV and they still regularly show trial coverage during the daytime on weekdays. Best Defense w/ Jami Floyd was my favorite show on that channel when I had cable.

channel I never watch, now I know to fully avoid it.

papers need to sell papers and TV needs to sell commercials

(because for "network" TV news, the decline began after CNN went live 24hrs a day. The existence of 24hr news broadcasting meant that, for much of the day, a nationwide "news" program was now airing opposite the usual shite of daytime television: soap operas, interview shows. The unintended consequence or intended consequence is that news began to fall in tone and seriousness to the level of its rival "entertainments".)

Along with the Who Shot J.R.? plot, there's also the damsel-in-distress plot, also known as pretty white girl goes missing. I expect that Future News will often feature long running characters who suddenly develop amnesia.

"Good Evening My Fellow Americans. As most of you know, I have developed amnesia and have no memory of how I got here. I don't know who I am or what I stand for; and I'm terrified that you'll find out."

These lurid stories, like the Anthony trial, may rate a mention in national news, but the 24x7 circus that surrounds them degrades the "news" and everyone who can still bear to watch it.

K&R

The "soap-operafication of the news" should become a classic. The "quote" under Obama's picture is wonderful.

Your post is "with it," clever, and more than appreciated by anyone who still has a working brain.

I would have typed LOL, but it was insufficient to cover your wit.

It's so much worse now with the proliferation of the 24-hour news cycle. Imagine what the situation would have been regarding Lindbergh's baby had CNN existed at the time!

Lizzy Borden?

By the way, bragging about your ignorance of a subject is a BAD way to introduce your "you're all stupid but me" tirade.

I follow some murder cases in the news, so I am feeble minded. You don't, which means you aren't.

Please list what interests you so that I can label it "feeble minded crap" and call you feeble minded for paying attention to it.

Thank you.

Read "In Cold Blood" as a child (by the feeble minded Truman Capote) and got hooked on the true crime genre. So what?

Following trials is just true crime in real time to me.