Can you tell me why we care more about Amy Winehouse 
dying than the tragedy in Norway?
Though she’s very talented, she’s been on a self-distructive path for years.
They were innocent teenagers gunned down by a mad man.
So why, as both a populous and as the media, are we giving her more face time?
I suppose almost all persons must have seen it forthcoming with A Whinehouse. Sad to say, this girl ended up being upon a downhill spin out of control the last various several years and also refused facilitate. Heartbreaking
I’m going to agree with Alice.
Norway makes my stomach upset thinking about the young victims and their families and the grief surrounding the country. If it could happen there, it can happen anywhere. Crazy doesn’t care what country you live in. Crazy can be anywhere.
Amy Winehouse was just a matter of time. Even her mother said so.
I don’t think people care MORE. I think people care about things that are close to their hearts and react differently to them.
Myself personally, was deeply saddened by the death of Amy Winehouse being that she is one of my favorite artists ever. I had not heard or read much about the Norway tragedy, not that it made me care less, it just wasn’t personal to me. No on has the right to judge the extent to which someone should care or why they care. Death is tragic, whether they had it coming or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I know people, adult people, who refuse to watch the news because there is too much tragedy on it.
In my opinion, they are avoiding the truth of what is happening to the world which makes all of us powerless to change the downward spiral.
Society as a whole wants to just put on their rose colored glasses, and would much rather mourn the loss of a talented person, who (let’s be honest here), most knew would meet a tragic end at some point in her life, than take them off and be faced with true, heartbreaking reality.
I honestly think it’s a distraction. Norway is so horrible to contemplate, it’s hard to process. Amy, on the other hand, well, it’s sad, but I think no one is shocked. It’s easier to deal with than to imagine the unbelievable trauma and pain for the teens and parents, as well as the people caught in the bombing. People are good at turning away from tough things. I have to think it’s really that. I hope.
I so agree with you. I was on twitter a lot this weekend because I was at a web 2.0 education conference and we were using twitter as a backroom for chat. I saw the news “trend” and I thought, WTF, all these people tweeting about it and how sad it is, or what a waste, or what an idiot. In the end, it’s one life, that was self-destroyed (we think) and Norway was more than 90.
Michael’s right it’s a matter of gossip and not gossip and the fact that gossip wins is pathetic.
This is the best example of fantastical separation.
Winehouse’s death although tragic is gossip. Tweens to seniors can say what a pity it is to lose a gifted and tortured artist who incurred some fame. Yes, losing a life at all is tragic but with all the multimedia of her career to paste together it makes for another kind of celebrity gossip that content producers can cut and package nicely. Just as you quietly want the underdog to win that same carnal desire makes you curious to see how low the rocker will go on the path to self-destruction before the obliterate themselves.
The media is so twisted to perpetuate the “cool” factor in Rock that they have called her the newest member of the “Forever 27” club along side Joplin, Hemdrix, and Cobain.
This is the girl who was set up, possibly by herself, to fall hard. Having the hit about her refusing drug-addiction treatment made the masses question just how wild her ride may get.
The shootings and bombings in Norway have no gossip quality to them. That’s hardened life that brings a sense of affection, affliction, morality, and justice to the table that a rock-stars death just doesn’t. There were more than 91 deaths this weekend and I truly feel for those who lost someone they loved. Even if they didn’t make the headlines.