I find this to be very interesting news. The entire story can be found here, and all over other major news networks. Basically Rachel Wade and Sarah Ludemann were in love with the same man. Wade couldn't handle the competition so she was found guilty of stabbing Ludemann through the chest and killing here. Wade's trial was all over news and her sentencing was an even bigger deal it seems. I find it to be a very sad ordeal overall, but what I find interesting is the level of coverage it received. It's not the only murder that has happened in the past year, so why is everyone talking about it?? In fact, HLN showed the sentencing live for a majority of the day on September 3rd, yet did it need to be shown? I realize it was a very upsetting ordeal, and my heart goes out to Sarah Ludemann's family, but is it hard news? Does CNN, CBS, and the other major networks need to give it so much coverage?
In my opinion this is another aspect of the media showing what will grab viewers. They showed Ludemann's mother's testimony of why Wade should get life in jail over and over. It brought tears to my eyes to hear Ludemann's father speaking of his daughter. They wanted that. It's a different type of murder so it got a higher level of coverage since people want to hear about it. It's not a story that will affect us in our daily lives, such as a tax hike, but they still showed it over and over. Why? Does it matter? Is it an important story that we need to know about? I'll leave that to you to decide.
Really, no. We don't need to know about this trial, but it has a love triangle. It's also more interesting because it's about a woman killing a man instead of a man killing man/woman. It is because of things like that that a lot of people don't like to watch the news. It is just too depressing for some people but to those same people it's less boring than hearing about taxes.
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