Quick Summary
- A shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon hit the news today and honestly it stopped everything cold.
- The way American media and pop culture has built a whole machinery around these events is something worth sitting with and talking about honestly.
- This post is about grief, about media, about what it says that we all kind of knew the script before it even started playing out.
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Honestly, I was not planning to write about this today. I had something else queued up, something lighter, something that felt more in line with what this blog usually does. And then I opened my phone this morning and saw the alerts coming in about a shooting in Bend, Oregon, and I just sat there for a minute. Because if early reports are accurate about where this happened and who was affected, we may be talking about an unthinkable situation. And yet some part of my brain, and I hate admitting this, already knew the beats of what was coming next. The breaking news ticker. The aerial footage. The politicians. The arguments. All of it. I knew it before it happened because we have all been through this so many times that it has become its own horrible genre.
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That is the thing I keep sitting with today. Not just the grief, which is real and heavy, but the way American media and culture has built this entire machinery around these events. A machinery that clicks into motion within minutes. And if you follow pop culture and media the way I do, you cannot help but notice it. You cannot help but feel implicated in it somehow, just by watching, just by clicking, just by reading the updates. That feeling does not go away. And I think we need to talk about it directly instead of tiptoeing around it.
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