Pandemonium Medicine Show

Regardless of your feelings on the matter if you have been following the recent media coverage of the Schivao case it's impossible to not feel a little conflicted or at least feel like you are not getting the whole story. The gamut of people and organizations shamelessly using this tragic situation for their own purposes has been disgusting. I've also heard so many conflicting representations of the situation and the motivations of those involved that I'm now convinced that as an extreme outsider, ie. a member of the general public, I'll never really know what's really going on.

I'm now discarding everything I hear regarding the Schivao case as untrustworthy and suspect. This means that the media and public leaders who have engaged on this issue have failed me. Or have they? It depends what their goal was. The non-stop coverage and speeches seem to serve only to muddy and obscure the issue rather than provide even a hint of clarity and insight. I had very much the same feeling regarding the original Iraq invasion. It seems like the whole process is designed not to inform the undecided, but to turn them into the disaffected. I hope I'm just being cynical, but at least it's not my fault.