Sheepville

Did Drew Peterson kill his wife? It's been made abundently clear the police and media think so. The media has gone from reporting the facts to an entity that can do and say anything with immunity under the guise of free speech. They can invade people's privacy, tresspass, harrass, threaten - anything. They were responsible for the death of a princess without consequence. The frenzy the media creates undoubtably has a negative impact on the investigations by police. The Joan Benet Ramsey (sp?) girl everything we saw in the media was trolling to get someone in the family convicted. The security guard that should have been a hero at the bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta was turned into a villain with absolutely no evidence against him. If they had found so much as a cement nail in his house he would be in prison today. After months of public conviction by the media that poor guy couldn't get a job guarding chickens. When are we going to tell the media that freedom of the press doesn't give them a right to stalk people and stand in front of their cars preventing them from leaving. You want to stand in front of Britney's Beemer to get photos of her and the kids who may or may not be strapped in a car seat? She should get paid a bonus to mow your ass over.

As long as our society supports this type of media frenzy it will never stop. It used to be faceless masses buying the National Enquirer, but now these millions of people have a voice all over the internet. Some of these people post to these news blurbs like they have a personal stake in the issue. I've got news for you - if one of the primary things in your life is being on the edge of your seat waiting for breaking news about Britney stealing a lighter and posting all over the place about it - you have more mental issues than Britney does. Yeah, even I'm guilty to a certain extent - as soon as I read about Brit's beaver shot I'm over at tmz to see the pic. Anything short of answering the question of carpeting or hardwood floors I'm just not gonna be much interested in - and I don't see anyone else really cares either.

Drew Peterson may have killed his wife but we don't know that. If she pops up tomorrow there will be no apologies to this guy even though he has already been humiliated by the media. Even if she never shows up, no body is ever found, not any evidence to convict him - the public will always believe he is guilty now.

Of course I'm rooting for the wife to show up so I can tell Tracy "SEE! SEE! But if HE had disappeared they would never have suspected her."