I thought I’d treat myself to a little television during my lunch today, since I wouldn’t be forced to watch JoJo’s Circus or Sesame Street. Problem is, it seems that Disney, Sprout and CNN are about the only channels that program actual shows in the middle of the night. It may be lunch time here, but since I’m watching my brother’s tv in California, I’m watching choice 3am shows.
I picked CNN and sat down to eat. They were doing all-out coverage on the bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis. It was interesting… until….
They said they’d finally been given permission to air an answering machine message left by a 10 year old on the school bus that nearly plunged with the bridge. That crossed the line. I do not need to hear the terror in the voice of a young child in the midst of a crisis. In tears, I rushed across the room and changed the channel. It may be a long time before I watch CNN again. That was not right. That was wrong. All wrong.
I’m glad I missed most of the coverage of the bridge collapse. I didn’t hear that recording you wrote about. It was sad enough just watching a few minutes of the coverage on NBC.