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Visualnoise Pollution

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 A song by Otep that describes my blog meaning pretty accurately. youtu.be/byoWMpHvtjE   A few months ago, I saw a national news station broadcast live footage of a jogger pushing a lady into traffic!! Luckily, the bus she would've been hit by, swerved around her head, barely missing her.  Then I watched a video of a policeman who had been shot by a kid. The news called him, the 'boy-with-a-cell-phone-to-his-ear' showing him on his phone repeatedly showing his poor choices. It was frightening and awful to witness.  It was too much. I had felt  personally violated.  What was this!? Really? Are you serious!? Live national news!!?? No way. I was baffled.. and embarrassed by what I had seen. Blackhearts? People with hearts are so murky, they can't see the most fundamental errors. They were already dead inside. Right? Is it natural to find devastatingly morbid footage, then peddle it like candy?  It reminds me of 9/11, and it's own video fiasco. Did I