I hate the media!

I am so sick of media and their bullshit!
I am even more sick of people taking what the media says as fucking gospel!
Ohh, don't think I've ever used that language up here.
Anyways, the seed was planted in October/07 or so, well, by rights it started WAY earlier with tabloids and celebrity torture, but on a personal and local level it blossomed in January/08.
Now I don't know if you've read through this blog much but there is a definite pattern in my attitudes, some call it left wing, bleeding heart, devil's advocate etc, pick your slogan, it doesn't bother me much.
We'll talk about what brought this post on first though.
Yesterday morning 3 young men were on the way to the airport to fly to Hawaii. On the way their truck ended up in a ditch and shortly thereafter, one of them was dead, the victim of an alleged hit and run.
The media picked it up and ran, as they will, and everyone was outraged by the claims the paper's printed and the radios reported. Today media stated that 2 suspects were arrested, then later that they were released. Heaven knows why they need to provide a running freaking commentary and can't just wait until there's something a little more concrete.
Anyways, now at work everyone is trying the case against the man who was arrested, speculation is flying of course, people are stating why he did it, why he left the scene, what his defense will be, how he'll explain cleaning the blood off his truck. Why he didn't turn himself in (which he may very well have done)?
Ok, say what? Isn't that jumping the gun just a LITTLE bit???
When I play my little 'devil's advocate' role as I do, they say 'But there were eye-witnesses', well, newsflash folks, just because there were eye witnesses does NOT mean that the reporter got it right! Often stuff is printed as fact when no-one, not even an eye-witness made such claims.
The only saving grace in this is that so far his name hasn't been published so chances are his family will have a short time to prepare themselves for the hell they will endure if he is charged.
You know what, maybe he did it, maybe he did it on purpose, maybe he did go home and wipe the blood off, but it's going to take a hell of a lot more then some article that amounts to a tabloid piece to have me sold on it.
In all reality him being charged isn't even enough, or it sure as hell shouldn't be.
The public decries the 'justice' system every chance they get but they really have no idea how it works. How the police work, and how all the facets of the system work, or don't work, together or apart.
One thing I have noticed is that when the time for charges does come, the police, or crown or whomever, seems to throw on as many as possible, simply in the hopes that the more there are, the more likely at least some will stick. What ends up happening is the public cries foul because a suspect who was charged with 30 things gets convicted of one, or even none. They just don't realize the bullshit politics behind the whole thing.