Media Ghouls
I rarely comment on things posted on Powerline, or Captains Quarters etc because the guys there have a much better way of saying everything I could possibly say on the subject and then some. However, what Captain Ed posted this morning about the Kruger family and their tragedy moved me to tears...and to anger.
"A Minnesota family has reeled from the impact of a double homicide in Waseca this weekend in which a father and son lost their lives and the mother has barely managed to survive. Hilary Kruger managed to give a description of the murderer to police, who arrested farmworker Mike Zebawa, who claimed that he accidentally shot three people with a shotgun, using multiple shells...Understandably, the family has been in shock since this grisly murder, and their primary concern is the health of Hilary Kruger. They have congregated at the hospital in Waseca in order to comfort each other, mourn the loss of their family members, and pray for Hilary's recovery. She remains in critical condition, but has stabilized.
However, according to one family member, the local media has done all it can to intrude on the grief of the victims. Jerad Hoff, the husband of Hilary's cousin, sent me this e-mail last night to describe the ghoulishness of local reporters in search of comment from the immediate family:
'Tracy Kruger was my wife's cousin. She is, like the rest of her family, in complete shock over the brutal murder of Tracy, Alec, and the attempted murder of Hilary. It's a difficult situation that nobody could be prepared for. Unfortunately the media is actively adding to the misery and suffering of a family that's trying to come to grips with this tragedy.
Members of the esteemed fourth estate have been tailing family members, calling into the waiting room at the hospital, and the latest atrocity is the money that's being offered for a picture of the grieving family together." (emphasis mine)
This is exactly why the "esteemed fourth estate" is losing readership and viewship. Most normal, logical, common sense people want to know the facts behind the story. We want to grieve with the family, not intrude on that grief. Yet our all knowing, elitist press can't seem to grasp the fact that they are out of line here. This is positively ghoulish behavior...behavior that the vast majority of Minnesotans want nothing to do with! For a group of people that claim to "know stuff" they sure don't get it...
My heart aches for the Kruger family and my prayers go out to them. Meanwhile, maybe some of you Minnesota readers could contact our local media folks and tell them "Enough is enough! Let the Kruger family have some peace in their time of grief!" It is the most compassionate thing we can do for the family.
"A Minnesota family has reeled from the impact of a double homicide in Waseca this weekend in which a father and son lost their lives and the mother has barely managed to survive. Hilary Kruger managed to give a description of the murderer to police, who arrested farmworker Mike Zebawa, who claimed that he accidentally shot three people with a shotgun, using multiple shells...Understandably, the family has been in shock since this grisly murder, and their primary concern is the health of Hilary Kruger. They have congregated at the hospital in Waseca in order to comfort each other, mourn the loss of their family members, and pray for Hilary's recovery. She remains in critical condition, but has stabilized.
However, according to one family member, the local media has done all it can to intrude on the grief of the victims. Jerad Hoff, the husband of Hilary's cousin, sent me this e-mail last night to describe the ghoulishness of local reporters in search of comment from the immediate family:
'Tracy Kruger was my wife's cousin. She is, like the rest of her family, in complete shock over the brutal murder of Tracy, Alec, and the attempted murder of Hilary. It's a difficult situation that nobody could be prepared for. Unfortunately the media is actively adding to the misery and suffering of a family that's trying to come to grips with this tragedy.
Members of the esteemed fourth estate have been tailing family members, calling into the waiting room at the hospital, and the latest atrocity is the money that's being offered for a picture of the grieving family together." (emphasis mine)
This is exactly why the "esteemed fourth estate" is losing readership and viewship. Most normal, logical, common sense people want to know the facts behind the story. We want to grieve with the family, not intrude on that grief. Yet our all knowing, elitist press can't seem to grasp the fact that they are out of line here. This is positively ghoulish behavior...behavior that the vast majority of Minnesotans want nothing to do with! For a group of people that claim to "know stuff" they sure don't get it...
My heart aches for the Kruger family and my prayers go out to them. Meanwhile, maybe some of you Minnesota readers could contact our local media folks and tell them "Enough is enough! Let the Kruger family have some peace in their time of grief!" It is the most compassionate thing we can do for the family.
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