Celebrity Tragedies

Let me begin by stating my sincere sympathies to the Travolta family on the death of their son. This is a tragedy for any family and they deserve all the privacy they can get so they can deal with their grief.
What really annoys me in these situations is the way the media dwells on it and tries to make something almost sinister out of it. There are implications made of a possible wrong doing, whether anything really exists.
I, personally, get infuriated with the emphasis on celebrities and their lives and missteps. Do you know how many families in this country lose children every day? How many women get murdered through domestic violence every day? How many families deal with teenage pregnancy and suicide every day? They all do this in their own quiet way with no fanfare or publicity.
I certainly am sick and tired of hearing about all of the missteps and tragedies of celebrities. The media needs to get real and address “real” issues. They need to be telling the stories of people who are losing their jobs or who cannot heat their homes instead of trying to make the death of a child or the murder of a woman into the news story of the day.
If they used those stories to accomplish legislation to prevent domestic violence or to make sure that children are protected it might be a little more acceptable. However, this does not seem to be the motivation for these stories.
As I write this there is yet another story that tries to raise questions surrounding the tragic death of this young man. I say enough is enough!