IS IT THE ACT OR THE PERSON COMMITTING THE ACT?

we are fixated on sensationalism... and in effort to get our fix, even things that in my opinion are not headline worthy make the front page in bold... all we need to do is find or make celebrities of whomever and we have a headline...

two cases in st. louis last week made the headlines because of who was involved... in our everyday lives, these cases would at most register a blip on the news radar... but since they involve the children of public figures, we have the celebrities and hence we can have a fix...

the cases are (to summarize):

1. the son of a police chief and his friend was arrested for allegedly taking his father's unmarked police cruiser and pulling over motorists... he got busted when one of the drivers he pulled over was an off duty law officer who became suspicious of their "undercover work"...

2. on Monday, the son of a County treasurer was arrested for allegedly punching a funeral home owner... apparently the funeral owner objected to the placement of a political campaign sign on his business' property and this son got upset about it...

why were these cases given such high profile treatment?.. because of the people who committed the crimes... people get punched in their faces all the times and cars get stolen all the time (including patrol cars)... motorists suffer inconveniences all the times... but these don't make headlines...

on one hand i am glad they plastered these culprits over the air waves... maybe they will be ashamed of their behavior... but on the other hand i know their "celebrity status" just magnified...while i am turned off by their raised "celebrity profiles" i am drawn to the headlines only to see what and how much favoritism will be given to these culprits...

in these cases... i would love to see the parents come forward and request that the books of law be thrown at their misbehaved kids... my granny calls it tough love... as she would say "if you refuse to lissen, the you will feel the pain"... sometimes i wish she was a judge..lol

i love to read the local news... it keeps me in touch with my neighbors... but can we focus on newsworthy items and not on who committed the act?... can i hear about the great deeds done for and in the community without even knowing who did it?...

it matters very little if any at all to me, who did what... i am very much interested in what was done...in those two highlighted cases, i couldn't care less who they are or to whom they are related... i am more interested in seeing them hauled off to serve the full punishment prescribed by the law...

let's get back to what was done...not who did it...