The question that I want to ask everyone is where is the follow-up on all of the news that we receive everyday? The most pressing question I have is for CBS and Katie Couric. If 120 American veterans are taking their lives each week as you reported a few weeks ago on The CBS Evening News, than where are the Congressional or other investigations and what has CBS done to follow-up on this story?
News stories such as this should not be left to whither and die. I imagine that there are families that have lost loved ones that want answers to why their loved ones decided to end it all. The story that you reported on must be true, if it were not I would imagine that a host of Federal “talking heads” would have nailed you and your sources to the wall. How this story got by the Federal and Corporate “censors” is still a question that I think about. I also wonder if you have been ‘advised” not to follow this story up. Do you realize that is 6,240 a year? That’s just about the same amount of people that died on 9/11 and the Iraq War combined (not counting the Iraqi people).
Where do our presidential candidates stand on this issue? Did it escape their attention that a major news outlet reported on this? Is this just another coincidence in a long string of coincidences? Have the soldiers coming back from Iraq stopped taking their lives, or are the death certificates being altered replacing suicide with “accident”.
Where is Congress on this issue? Moreover, where is Congress on any issue? Are they still running willy-nilly to sign on to the “Thought Crimes Prevention Act”. Come to think of it, are thoughts of suicide a crime? The act is, so why not the thought? Halliburton has the facilities, so why not lock up everyone that has ever thought of suicide? For that matter has anyone thought of offing their boss, their wife, the President? We could lock up everyone except the 15% that hold 90% of this nation’s wealth. We could all watch them from out TV’s at “Hotel Halliburton”. It would be like an expanded version of “survivor”. When the whole thing played itself out, we could all be let go and go back to living our lives without the parasites that are living among us now.
Katie, you shouldn’t start something that you can’t finish. The story doesn’t end when you sign off. The story ends when you report on a resolution of the problem, whether it be an investigative committee from Congress or the VA, or some kind of report that says that they have identified the underlying problem and are taking steps to correct it. Then a follow-up should be done to see if the problem has been corrected. I don’t want to “school” you in “Journalism 101”, but apparently you have nobody where you work that will tell you “what time it is”. Well I will do it for you; it’s time to stop being the voice of the teleprompter and start being a journalist. You don’t get paid to tell half the story.
That’s the way I see it.
