'The press is our friend! They care!'
Whatever.
They serve the powerful, not the public interest.
Case in point?
There was a deadly bank shooting in the United States on Friday. I heard about it via an e-mail from a community member. We now have three sources so I'm going to write about it.
A woman worked at Southside Bank in Tyler, Texas on Beckham. She was well liked by her co-workers and by patrons of the bank. Friday, September 11th, she was surprised to be informed that she was fired. She left and returned that afternoon with a gun. In front of her former co-workers, she shot herself.
There's so much to say about this.
This goes to the very real fear so many Americans live with in normal times of pay-check-to-pay-check living. In normal times. These aren't normal times, we are living in a pandemic.
Congress can't get off their lazy ass to help the American people -- who are strong but struggling -- and we've got Krystal Ball calling it great politics to do nothing. She thinks Nancy Pelosi' 'strategy' of doing nothing so the American people suffer is 'smart.' (That's why I called out Krystal earlier today.)
She's talking b.s. 'smart politics.' People are losing jobs, people are losing their lives and Krystal Ball wants to say it's 'smart' because it'll have voters blaming Donald Trump.
This isn't a game and those who offer 'horserace' and 'insider baseball' news are not offering news and are not helping anyone but those already in power.
This also goes to the power and how power protects power. If that had been a bank robbery shooting, the press would have been all over it. But it wasn't. It was a suicide and one that the victim's fellow employees feel the bank was culpable in by firing her.
This didn't get on the national news. But grasp this, it didn't even make that area's local news. Everyone worked together to cover this up so that Southside Bank wouldn't have a bad reputation.
They should have a very bad reputation. This story needs to be known.
I waited until my third confirmation to note this. On Friday, a community member e-mailed me about it and he was making a delivery at the time. On Monday, a community member who lives in the area confirmed it because he knows the family of the victim. This afternoon, a community member who works at the bank (but not at that location) confirmed it.
The press knows of this story -- that include national press because I confirmed with a producer at CNN minutes ago. It sure is cute the way that they all turned their heads to ignore it and to make sure the American people didn't know that one of their own, a hard working woman, was fired and left despondent in the midst of a pandemic and then took her own life and did so in front of others.
Women don't usually go postal -- meaning taking out fellow employees. They usually self-harm instead of taking out others. (The woman did not harm and did not attempt to harm any of her fellow employees.) But they also don't usually kill themselves in front of others. She must have been truly at the end of her rope and completely destroyed by the actions of her employer.
