The headline from WCCO.com
Man With Workout-Ball-Slashing Fetish Charged
From the article....Court documents say Bjerkness told police he slashed the rubber balls to satisfy a sexual urge. Experts said he has an unusual attraction to inflatable exercise devices.
With every challenge we have facing us in this state as well as our nation, this warrants top billing?
What a load of shit.
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Heck M, that would be weird even here in California - I can see why it would catch attention there in the nice, normal mid-West.
Besides, isn't it obvious that the guy needs mental health help? Won't that be part of our great new health care system? If not, how do you explain the failure to provide such necessary care? You want to wait until an inflatable ball doesn't satisfy his urge to slash?
Well, Mark, over at KSTP.com the main headline is about an MTC driver maced by a passenger. A Brooklyn Park man pleads guilty to imprisoning a girl, and the possibility of Brett Farve (yawn) maybe becoming a Viking. (Bigger yawn)
Somehow the previous comment posted before I was done. There was more to my rant, but I can cut to the chase.
WCCO,com is just the website of a local freaking televised news program. Whaddya expect, journalism? Those venues exist to serve an audience, not the population. WCCO's audience is, in my opinion, rather shallow, normal, white bread, Lutheran Minnesota suburbanites. Their lives are pretty ordinary. They need something a little... kinky once in awhile. It reminds them that they're normal, and correct to be a little shocked by behavior like this. It's water-cooler fodder.
My favorite was the FOX9.com headline about the man hurt in Big Lake crash. What, did he crash into a big lake?
I long ago gave up on television news for journalism, and local television news is just national television news dumbed-down with a local spin.
But journalism? Never!
The problem is that most news is entertainment. It's nothing new. People have been decrying "yellow journalism" for centuries. The National Enquirer has been going strong for decades, publishing mostly fiction and celebrity gossip.
Local commercial news has always been like this, which is why I've never bothered with it. It's basically just weather and sports, with a few dire, breathlessly delivered stories about where your children are, the latest local nitwit liquor store robbery, a dog murderer, a crazy lady with 500 cats, or how someone is trying to rip you off.
If you want straight local news you have to listen to public radio or watch local public TV. But you already knew that.
So, isn't there a liberal that is going to stand up for the state in making sure this poor bastard gets his mind right?
Where's the love for mental health services?
I'm not sure they taught this in mental health class, juris. Anyone would be a novice.
What a bunch of weenies. Where is your compassion? Where is the love for making this man a nice, conforming member of society.
You all sure as fuck want "conservatives" to be re-programmed, why not this guy?
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