Blair v Tillman

I am a football fan. Pretty much every day I check out my favorite team’s site, NFL.com, and a few other sources about football. I think it really is too bad that the military withheld information about Pat Tillman’s death. However, I think that it is an even bigger problem that on the front page of CNN.com the first thing you see is Pat Tillman in uniform, but that you have to scroll down in order to see anything about the elections in Britain.

These are significant elections for the world folks. The UK is a member country of G8, they are Permanent members of the United Nation’s Security council. Hell, they are progenitors of the framers of the U.S. Constitution. This elections is globally significance, and even more so to the United States. While Pat Tillman’s death is unfortunate, and the new information surrounding it doesn’t look favorably upon the US military, it is not as newsworthy as the elections in the UK.

Here is part of the problem. The news in the news isn’t news anymore, its advertising, sprinkled with facts (and fictions) in order to sell market shares. New organizations are capitalist enterprises, and inasmuch are out to make a buck. News shouldn’t be what sells, it should be what is.