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Yes, it’s a scam - they charge us for things we don’t get, and we let them get away with it.

You go to a restaurant and order a chicken sandwich, and it comes with bacon and cheese. So, you say no cheese — do they give you any money off for not having cheese? If it came without cheese and I asked for it, you know they’d charge me.

Ever order a burger with extra tomato and they charge you half a buck? So why don’t they take off money if you ask for your sandwich with no tomato?

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So, this morning I’m watching one of the morning talk shows and my local news station interrupts with a breaking news story.

To paraphrase: “There has been a shooting in the parking lot at the Barnstable Courthouse. That’s all the details we have and we’ll bring you more news as we find it out.”

Uh, excuse me?? WHY? You gave NO information. If I had a relative working in the courthouse, or someone who was driving by that area, etc., I’m be a nervous wreck at that point.

They interrupt to give you a half-assed news story lacking any depth, so they can say, “we brought it to you first.” Hoo ha. Yippee.

They did it weeks ago when they interrupted to say there had been a shooting at a school, but had no more details. If I were a parent in that school district, a relative of a teachers, etc, I’d have been going bonkers.

Must the media ignore human emotions for ratings? What happened to what I learned about journalism in school — WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY.

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Yes, it’s very sad that she died. But, why is every media outlet covering this story 24/7 without a break? She was a girl from a small town who wanted to be famous, and did whatever she could to get there, from modeling jeans, posing in Playboy, married a billionaire, using drugs, losing weight, etc.

Her life wasn’t charmed. A marriage at 16 led to the birth of a son who died 5 months ago, barely 21 years old, from a drug overdose. She married a man in his late 80’s, a billionaire, and got 400+ million dollars when he died, lost it due to a court case by her stepson, then got it back. She seemingly found love with her attorney, gave birth to a daughter and 3 days later her son died. Then 3 people claimed to be the father of her child, and now she’s dead, the young daughter without a mother or known father at this time.

Ok, so she was a young girl who died tragically, though at this point her cause of death is unknown, but prescription drugs were found in her hotel room where she died.

But WHY is so much attention given to her? Other people have passed on without much fanfare or just a passing mention.

Are we so gossip-hungry that an entire nation is poised on the edge of their seats to find out if a former model, part-time actress and known publicity seeker died from a drug overdose?

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