Hello friends! I am very pleased with the increase in page views for this week. I'm glad to see my followers are growing globally as well. I never thought I'd out reach to people across the world, but turns out I am apparently. That's great! Just so you all know, feel free to comment on anything you'd like. I'll take whatever: suggestions, critiques, questions, ect.; if you dish 'em out I will definitely take them into consideration (and comment back)! I have had complaints about my lengthy entries so I've been working on getting my point across more concisely but that's not always the case. I have a lot to say sometimes, I can't help it!
Well anyways, there are many exciting happenings going on in the wonderful U.S. of A today. One that I am personally very excited for is to stop hearing about Democratic Rep. of New York, Anthony Weiner's overly talked about (and 46 years of age- ew) wiener. I mentally fist pumped earlier today when I read the article via CNN that he will finally state his resignation this afternoon. What Weiner did is not only morally wrong, it's down-right disgusting and as a proud young AMURican citizen, the last thing I wanna hear about is how some political figure wanted to get "some" by sexting with some girls nearly my age. This is one of the 20,384,903 problems with our society: whenever a famous person (may they be an athlete, politician, actress, or some random who got famous from a youtube video) gets caught in a cheating scandal the WHOLE nation hears about it instantaneously. To top it off, the story never, ever gets old. All news networks have all the latest and (supposedly) greatest top stories about this particular scandal. While many AMURicans may think this is exciting because this is so "unbelievably awful and disgusting" (which it IS, don't get me wrong), the truth is I think bringing the media into the whole mix of things just makes matters worse. Let's take a second and put ourselves in the shoes of the people who are the ones hurting the most from these types of promiscuous scandals: the families. For one, the families have to find out about this awful, unbelievable act(s) their loved one has committed. For two, now they have to watch as the whole world learns about this hoopla. For three, these people have to be questioned/interviewed by not only people they know, but media as well, and try to explain "how they feel." It's like come on people, you can't tell by the blank, clearly hurt, and devastated look in their eyes that they're completely miserable and the absolute last thing they want to do is talk to some stranger so they can broadcast to even more people about how their pathetic so-called "loved one" hurt them. This angers me so much. I can't even imagine what Huma Abedin, who is Weiner's pregnant wife, is going through right now. The beginning of this scandal began at the end of May and there have news articles released basically everyday from nearly every network. And this woman has still been going on with her daily life and working (she's an assistant to Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton). Wow, way to go Huma! Instead of exploiting the wrongs of Weiner, the media should perhaps be outreaching to Huma and saying, "we are greatly sorry for what you are going through right now" and leave her and her family ALONE. HA! Like that would ever happen. It's very evident that Huma is a very strong woman, as she has continued her work and is still seen in the public eye. I just want to give her mad-kudos and support for what she's been going through. The least the media could do is back off and hopefully now that Weiner has officially stated he plans to resign (he will be making a statement this afternoon), Huma and now former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner will be able to settle these huge issues. Furthermore, I hope these two are able to work things out somehow. If not, I hope Huma and her unborn child receives all the justice ($$$) she deserves even if a divorce is the final answer. Even more so, I just wish the media didn't get so caught up in these scandals because honestly it just ends up hurts the families even more than needed. In the end, the only ones who benefit are the media contenders themselves who are only in it for the big bucks. Well, those are my P & Qs for today. What do you think about the Weiner scandal? Do you think it's right the media exploits these stories without consideration of the families?
Until next time....
Alyce
Article of Weiner's Resignation:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/16/weiner.scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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