I've sort of grown accustomed to the death counts, the overly detailed facts and the, at times, heart breaking interviews i have to conduct...but today i found myself really really feeling sick to my stomach.
As im sure you all know Osama Bin laden was killed last night.
I'm not necesarily pleased or angry about it; merely shocked, mainly at the way people have reacted to it.
My job today has been scouring through the editorial and opinion pages in the French, Spanish, English and American online newspapers to translate and write up as an addition to the piece we are writing.
The american ones are the worst:
"Tonight, i am proud. We got the son of a bitch"
The Washington Post
"This is revenge, but it's also deterrence and also means that bin Laden won't kill any more Americans"
The New York Times
You're proud!?
Proud that you killed someone!?
Osama bin laden did terrible things, he killed thousands, but in no way do i think anyone should ever rejoice over someone's death. Most likely they rejoiced after 9/11, are we going to mimic them and do the same?
And what on earth do you mean, "won't kill anymore Americans"?
THE WORLD was affected. There were more than just Americans in those towers, in the buses and tube stations in London and the bomb attacks in Madrid.
I have honestly never felt so sick reading the news as i have today.
Pages upon pages of photos of people rejoicing in the streets with paint on their faces, of articles dedicated to expressing people's pride in being American because of THIS.
There are even botched photos of bin Laden's corpse all over the internet.
This has made me so sure i never want to work in this line of journalism.
Who on earth can be so sick and stupid to hear someone is dead and be happy about it.
This isn't the end of terrorism, if anything this is the begining.
Im sorry to rant and i dont mean to push my opinions on anyone, but i am so angry and sad about this.
Life is life, no matter whose it is and we should never be joyful when it is taken away.
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