Media & Law

I feel like the media is responsible for ruining people's perceptions of the legal profession in this country. Think about the coverage of trials that you have seen. You always hear about the beginning of a case, such as the announcement of a lawsuit. Yet, you almost never hear about the result of a case.
This may be due to the American public's absurdly short attention-span. By the time a trial is over, not enough people even care about it any longer to justify putting it on the 6 o'clock news. By the way, that's another sign of how much working sucks. The workday is supposed to end at 5, but not enough people return home from work that corporations can't justify dipping into the marketing budget for another hour.
All those people are just sitting in traffic, idling their gasoline purchase away as they release clouds of toxic, environmentally-damaging chemicals into the atmosphere that ORGANISMS BREATHE. Companies that produce cars and gasoline (and are DEFINITELY owned by the same group of people) are the reason for the two biggest problems facing the United States: climate change and the Iraq War.
Actually, climate change is a problem facing every organism on the planet. The Iraq War is a financial sinkhole that is partly to blame for why this recession has hit us so hard and will last as long as it will. Thanks, Congress, for doing NOTHING while the Executive Branch went well on its way to destroying this country. Where are those checks & balances that the Constitution calls for? They're buried under the power of the President.