''This may be the end of this thing...''

Posted by Dennis G. Jerz on July 28, 2007 1:27 AM | | Comments (0) ~
The power class was buzzing around in the sky, watching the ruination of someone's life way down below - making buckets of cash by broadcasting someone else's tragedy, then - WHAM - the real bursts into their own life, they become the live tragedy - but we're still viewing the whole thing through the lens of a t.v. camera. How tragic and fascinating. --Baby_Balrog

I'm sad for the deceased. I'm sad for their families. I wish someone had used some good judgment at some point to prevent such a tragedy. | I'm also hoping it leads to less of this kind of "content" on the news, but recognise how futile that hope is even as I type it. --batmonkey --''This may be the end of this thing...'' (MetaFilter)
From comments posted on MetaFilter's coverage of today's midair helicopter crash in Phoenix.


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