The big story of the day is about a minister’s wife killing her husband. It’s what was on the television this morning, on the radio during the drive to work, and the featured headline on all the news sites.
Here’s the A.P. story from Yahoo!:
The wife of a minister found dead in the church parsonage has confessed to shooting him and fleeing to Alabama, where she was found the following night with their three young daughters, authorities said Friday.
Mary Winkler told investigators she shot her husband on Wednesday, Selmer Police investigator Roger Rickman said.
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“I can’t believe this would happen,” said Pam Killingsworth, a church member and assistant principal at Selmer Elementary.
“The kids are just precious, and she was precious,” Killingsworth said. “He was the one of the best ministers we’ve ever had - just super charisma.”
What is up with the media? Why are they so obsessed with this terribly sad story about murder? Don’t they know that President Bush and his followers don’t want us to hear about this kind of stuff? There must be some good things that happened today that the media can feature, even in Selmer.
Why can’t the media tell us about Ms. Livingwell who got up today, made coffee for her husband, fed her children, drove them to school, stopped at the coffee shop for a latte and a muffin, tipped her barista, and then went home to clean house and walk the family dog? Instead of interviewing Ms. Killingsworth about a grisly murder, the reporters should interview Ms. Livingwell to find out what her preferences are for window cleaner and doggie doo doo bags. They could ask her how often her husband calls home from his office. We all want to know these things.
We don’t want to know about what drives a seemingly nice substitute teacher in Tennessee to shoot her husband–a man of God. We don’t want to know what will become of her precious children do we? We’d be sick in the head to dwell on such things.
It’s just not nice.
P.S. This story is prime material for Nick Cave’s next album of murder ballads, should he ever decide to revisit that genre. And if he does, I’ll buy it.
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