Fake Girlfriends and Doped Up Cyclists Take Precedence Over The Constitution

      This country truly amazes me at times. Almost to the point of disbelief. In the light of the 23 executive actions the president had the audacity to sign yesterday, as I sit and read the news, (with the TV on mute in the background), every time I look up, they are showing more pictures of this foolish Notre Dame "scandal". Is this really deserving of any coverage at all?
     In a time in our nation's history when the people in the government are ignoring, disrespecting, and blatantly violating the Constitution, how in good conscience can any "journalist" even devote one second to this non-issue, is a complete mystery to me. Let's look at this like we have a half ounce of common sense for one minute;
     This football player supposedly had a girlfriend who died, and that was cause for national attention, apparently. I didn't realize we as a nation were starting to pick and choose who we feel sorry for these days. How many other people had a girlfriend or loved one die in an accident that day? Where was the national tears shed for them? I wish to take nothing away from this young man's athletic ability, who he is as a person, or anything else like that. I am just wondering why he deserves the national attention of every major television network, dedicating at least 2 hours of coverage, (just since I woke up). And then there's the truth of the matter. He had no girlfriend. No one died. It was all a hoax. Why? Is it really relevant?
     The mainstream media uses these "flavor of the week" stories as a distraction technique, a way to get your attention off one wretched subject to another, and this is a prime example of such. With the threat of indefinite detention from the government, the perpetual wars we are continuing across the globe, (Coming Soon: AFRICA), and the impending and almost certain economic collapse on the horizon, spending any time covering non-issue stories like this are purely meant to "calm" you down enough through confusion, (why in the world would someone of college age perpetrate such a hoax, or who would do it to them?), and distraction, to make you passively accept what criminal actions against our constitutional rights are being committed.
    Even now, as I look up from writing this, the stories have now gone from the football player to the bike rider. So now, in the last hour alone, I have seen 45 minutes worth of coverage on these 2 stories. How can we expect to unify the citizens and make the necessary repairs to heal our ailing nation, when the real issues are being ignored in favor of stories that have no bearing on our national predicament? How can these "news" sources expect any of us to take them seriously, when they devote this much time distracting us from the real issues?
     One can only now hope, (a grossly over used term these days), that we can counter this type of time wasting, largely inaccurate, and biased reporting with the sharing of information amongst ourselves. Even as the internet garners criticism for "false stories", (which there are a lot of), one can still find more information in one hour of internet searching as opposed to watching any TV "news" channel, all day long. Social media has allowed for the forming of groups and pages dedicated to researching and posting of actual information, and the ease of checking the facts out for one's self increases every day.
     In the world of information, ignorance is a choice, and I personally find it high time for my fellow citizens and I to demand these "news" agencies cut out the sensationalist, partisan, non-issue stories, and start getting behind the American people with useful information, and not this pseudo-celebrity B.S. No war will end, no economic recovery will happen, and no tyranny will fail if we are more concerned with a girlfriend dying that didn't exist, or if some bicycle rider took dope in a race in France.