" Bad News Travels Fast...And Continuously...."

First up, let's be clear on something.

Two young people died in the crash of the Asiana passenger jet in San Francisco and that was a tragedy.

Now, let's view this event for what it was.

The first crash of a commercial aircraft in America in almost three years.

Two fatalities in a group of over three hundred people on board the airplane.

Due respect to the families who lost loved ones, even the most casual observer would agree that this incident is totally qualified to be filed under "it could have been much worse".

Much.

But, if you follow the coverage, online and on air, you would be inclined to think that this incident is on a par with 9/11.

It was, and is, not.

And the continued over dramatization of it does a disservice to pretty much everybody.

While continuing to underscore how much media journalism has become less about factual reporting and more about sensationalism.

Not to mention illuminating the down side of a culture that offers up twenty four/seven television, radio and now, of course, the impish new kid on the block, the internet.

Here's a thought.

Enough already.

In lieu of that, how about a perspective check?

Look at a clock.

Thirty minutes from now, here in America, the same number of people who died in the San Francisco crash will be dead from injuries suffered in a car crash.

And that will continue every thirty minutes.

From now on.

But, my guess is that you didn't know that.

How could you?

There's no time to tell you about it what with the time required to play the video of the San Francisco air crash over and over and over.

And over.

Enough already.