What's the 411 Boston?

Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm about to alienate and/or piss some people off. But is anyone else out there tired of hearing about the Boston Marathon bombing? Actually, let me rephrase that. Is there anyone out there tired of hearing about the Boston bombing that will own up to it?

I know, I know. It was a terrible tragedy. I'm not arguing that. The image of that poor 8 year old boy who was a victim of these sick twisted morons will forever be seared into my brain. I hope there's a special corner of hell for the psychotic bastards who hurt children in any way. May they spend the rest of eternity with hot pokers shoved under their fingernails and have hourly enemas of boiling oil. But don't you think, now that the perpetrators are caught, that maybe, just maybe, we can let those poor families grieve in peace? Do we need daily updates and hourly newscasts re-hashing it over and over again?

Admittedly, I was pretty sick of all the news coverage before it even ended. Did anyone ever think that it took so long to find the other guy because he was watching the news? The news, where every single move about what was being done and what progress was being made and what facts were known were being broadcast to everyone with a television set?

Unless you live under a rock, you know what happened in Boston. For a few days I could have an intelligent conversation about a current event, albeit a gruesome one. But after a few days, the media frenzy just gets old fast. This new age of information has, well, too much information. (Literally as I'm writing this a promo for Wednesday's Dateline came on: Inside the Boston manhunt.) Not only do we have radio and television but now there's the internet, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Basically we cannot unplug ourselves. Great for keeping in touch with family. Not so great if you're trying to get a reprieve from the onslaught of detail overload.

I can't help but feel like the newshounds grasp on to these awful events and wring out every single drop of terror, horror, and tragedy. The more atrocious the event, the happier they are. "Hallelujah Jim, there's been an innocent child killed in a bombing! Think of how well we can lather the American people up with this one!" And then they proceed to show us ad nauseum, until we're ready to hunt down the SOB just to shut the damned newscasters up. (Just saw yet another news promo for "Boston: 1 week later".)

For now, we're stuck being deluged with the aftermath of the Boston Marathon. (Injected with as much sarcasm as a single sentiment can take:) Surely they haven't interviewed the third grade teacher of the eyewitness who lead officials to the culprits, right? Still so much untapped news potential!