I'm so pleased that those boys have been rescued from that cave, because everyone deserves to be rescued, of course. But, mostly I am pleased that those boys have been rescued from that cave, so everyone can stop talking about it.
I was so sick of it by the end. (I am sure we are due all the postmortems yet, and a 60 minutes Where Are They Now special in a month)
Children stuck in a cave, every news outlets wet dream. It doesn't matter that it really had nothing much to do with any of us, or Australia, because news is now a commodity to sell, and news must rate. It is an absurd notion that the news must rate.
That story should have been, twelve boys and their coach were lost in a cave in Thailand. Then, a week later, the 12 boys and their coach were rescued. Yay! That should have been it. Two news articles covering the story.
What we got was a circus. A media circus with everyone vying for ratings. It turned into a living, breathing entity all of its own there for a while.
And now it is over. Yay.
Of course, I wish them well, but enough already.
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