Seven American Death And Disasters Analysis

The life of modern society is all about information. To some extent, the world of news has become a new reality to people, the reality with its own concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, true and false. We may not have given it a notice, but the world of news has straightforwardly invaded our life and turned it into a linear flow of information with each event bringing some sort of continuation of the never ending line. We are getting more and more interested in searching for some breaking news or celebrity gossip on the Internet, as it gives us a false impression of our life being the same. We are always trying to stay updated, but it is nothing different but making a labyrinth of stories where each storyline is intersected by another

It definitely concerns terrorist attacks or wars that are still going on in different corners of the world. This kind of news is a long-lasting attraction among the audience, as it concerns not the lives of grief-stricken people who had lost their families or friends, but the whole story lying behind the scene. The audience is interested in the process of investigation, theories the investigating committee would come up with, public reaction to the whole issue, unknown details that eventually come to the fore and determine further actions that state investigation might take and whether the story is brought to its logical stop.
Seven American Deaths and Disasters by Kenneth Goldsmith reveals a truly important issue of how people perceive depressing news. The tragedy with the World Trade Center has shown clearly that unless we witness sorrow and misery of seeing somebody die, we will never understand how it feels to fully embrace the concept of death. While reports we hear from the news are just words, heartless and crude words, nothing can substitute for the loss of a human life. The sad thing, however, is that we’ve learnt to make business out of