Evidently, Terrell Owens of the Dallas Cowboys attempted suicide Tuesday night, or so the media would have you believe. He claims he simply took a bad combination of pills (he added pain killers because of his injured hand) and passed out.
The media latched on to one comment Owens made while he was still out of it. Apparently a preliminary police report claimed that he answered "Yes" to the question of whether or not he was trying to hurt himself. This was never confirmed by anyone.
The entire media coverage of the situation was shameful. It is so irresponsible to even put out rumors when there is no confirmation. Remember Watergate? Woodward and Bernstein had to get multiple sources to say the same thing even before the Washington Post would run even the most obvious story. The T-O "story" is simply representative of this journalist carelessness.
More than the media turning into a tabloid circuit is the question of if Owens actually did try to commit suicide. There was absolutely no compassion for Owens throughout the entire coverage. If he actually did attempt suicide (and you have sufficient confirmation) report it and move on for the sake of the person that attempted suicide.
Damn, whatever happened to empathy?
1 comment:
The journalists no one will care if the story is wrong simply because it IS T.O.
No one likes him, so if it turns out to be wrong, the public won't be up in arms or anything like that.
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