Will the media coverage show up on fandom wank?

For the fourth or fifth (losing count these days) time in my life, I’m deciding to ignore the news sites and news radio and news on tv. They found JonBenet’s killer, and now it’s going to turn US news media into an endless cycle of specials, bulletins, and 24/7 coverage that borders on assault.

I do not need to hear about the guy in intimate detail. I don’t need to hear about his history as a sex offender, his spotty job performance, his habit of eating kittens for lunch, his horrible childhood, his bad wardrobe choices or his ex-wife’s testimonial as to his impotence or general inability to be a man. I do not need to hear the neighbors he’s had in the past 20 years exclaiming that he was ’such a nice man.’ I do not need to hear townspeople exclaiming how they suspected it was him because x, y and z. I do not need to hear from the police who found him nekkid in a back alley in Bangkok with a child prostitute. I do not need to know his favorite website was Myspace, he was left-handed, he was Republican, he was OMG! feeling so guilty! never would have hurt her! I do not need to hear endless jokes and top ten lists. I do not need to see his face photoshopped into images or videos. I do not need to see endless posting across the internet as to how he should be punished, whether beheading is too good for the SOB or whether he’s just sick and misunderstood.

I only needed to know he’s been caught. I’m actually relieved, for the dad’s sake.

Now can we move on to catch some other child-killer?

Note: I don’t know that any of this is true. Some details I’ve seen mentioned in blurbs, the rest I made up, but I really don’t know. Because I don’t want to. Because I have better things to do than waste energy sharing yet another cultural obsession.

Either way, I won’t be participating in the bread and circuses.