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Like many others, I get my daily news from online sources and I continue to be fascinated by how much rubbish and non-news gets on sites such as ABC News, CNN and other reputable sites.

ABC News: Marine Puppy-Throwing Video

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4384322

Simple story, a marine throws a puppy off a cliff… I fail to see how this is news much less anything of any importance. Why? Well, it’s one puppy and one marine, nobody dies other then the puppy and in the grand scheme of things, who cares?

ABC News: Bombings in Afghanistan Kill 5

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4382948

Two NATO soldiers and three civilians are killed when a suicide bomber decides to become a martyr for his perceived reicheous cause. Is this news? I consider it to absolutely be news, why? Well, this covers the bigger story of the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan which, by all accounts, they are actually winning on. They where initially overthrown as a results of protecting Osama Bin-Laden, but instead of fixing the problems that allowed them to emerge in the first place, the United States decided to go on a while goose hunt.

It’s all about the comments

Now, which of the above two stories do you think got the most comments? The story about a dog being thrown to its death or five people dying… you guessed right, the dog story! So far, as of this writing, the puppy throwing video has gathered just shy of 1100 comments, the Afghan bombing, zilch, zero, nothing! What does this tell you? Well, there is more value in this society for a puppy then five human lives. No condolences for the soldiers who lost their lives in making our world better but wow… there is no lack of them for a puppy!

Patterns repeating themselves

Alright, this is but one case but I have seen it repeated over and over again where non-news gathers more “reaction” then actual news. Don’t believe me? Take Britney Spears, a has-been who is of no significance in the financial, geo-political or to my daily survival who gets more over-saturated coverage across all forms of media then the Sudanese Genocide that has been going on for years now. People are fascinated by celebrity which in the grand scheme of things means nothing yet couldn’t care less about the systematic wiping out of ethnic clans in Africa, Asia and South America.

What does this all mean?

Well, I see this as a sad reflection on society as a whole. Do you remember what happened to the Roman Empire? Well, the emperor started having problems so he began to make sacrifices of humans in various ways to keep the people appeased and forgetting their everyday problems. The Inca did the same thing in Mexico and countless civilizations before that proceeding their downfall. What I am saying is that forgetting about the value of human life is yet another brick in the road towards annihilation of our species. You see this with Global Warming (however it’s caused), people complain about asthma yet drive around in huge SUVs and smoke, people complain about the lack of affordable health care yet decide to live a life of excess (obesity)… the majority of the people out there just don’t care about other humans anymore then they care about themselves.

The Bottom Line

When people care more about nonsense then actual news, there is something wrong with our society.