Sparkleplenty's Blog

I know of a family whose Grandfather was the Advertising Manager of the St. Louis Star Times.  He spent many hard years in the media business not only supporting his family but trying to make St. Louis look good.

Ever since his daughter had daughters, his daughter warned her daughters that the media was really the bad guy.  She said that it was all the media's fault.  She said it daily with exasperation.  And she would know, her father was in the media, and a very popular guy from what I have heard.

It saddens me to see the media treat people in St. Louis the way they  have.  It saddens me to see the Fox network lose a minimum of 4 people supposedly in one to two months, almost as if they are being stalked themselves.    It saddens me to see a country, a world and a city of people running from the media and it's sorry contacts.  It saddens me to see myself a person with a media degree from a respected school not even get an interview at a TV station.

Don't get me wrong, I see a lot of good in the media.  I see a lot of hard working people who work very hard.

But I also see the dark side of the media, I see it's involvement in politics and the dreadful effects that it has had on our country.

But most of all, what I see now, is why my grandfather died so terribly young, and left his daughter walking down the aisle with her big brother.

He never even got to meet his son in law or his grandchildren.  How sad is that.

This is my last blog.

Thank you and good bye.