chachazoom said:One thing I noticed that kind of gave me a lurch was during the a CNN report of the shooting, they had this "Walmart 40% off ipads iphones" scrolling happily across the bottom of the screen. I thought wow, way to jump on the exploitation wagon. Just made me sad thinking of the tragedy and the far reaching effects and how Christmas will be for those families, a horror to get through. And I thought it just seemed so wrong to advertise Christmas sales in this context.
When the shooting in Montreal at the Montreal University with Marc Lepine as the shooter, I remember and never forget that the day after the massacre I was in my car and in the radio a store was telling: "come here to buy our things and try to forget what happened and try to be less sad and try to be in the mood of Chrismas". These are the words the announcer was telling. I felt so ashamed.