Sorrow and the media
Bea apologized for her remarks following the loss of the Columbia.
I don't think she had to.
Without getting into details of how warped an sketchy are we Colombians, as an acquaintance told me last night, suffice it to say that a long history of violence has made us more critical to a media that speaks of this sad loss as a tragedy, and then makes the whole situation into a spectacle for ratings.
We all suffer when we see death. We have tears in our yes when listening to the news of the Columbia, thinking of the families, the twelve children, of the astronauts.
I think that I can include Bea here, we were disgusted to know that the government won't pay for the well being of those families – that they had to resort to the same fund that helped the Challenger families.
But, at the same time, a voice inside asks about all other tragedies to which we have been witnesses. And we can't do but wonder.