irritated at headlines again

A lot of times, i am cautious of being derisive in fear of being prejudiced or lacking understanding or empathy or whatever. But i believe my cause in this instance is just enough.
Headline:
Olympian tells what killed pool romance.

Why? just.....just why? Why do the media do this? are they reflecting on what society wants to read? If that be the case, my opinion of society has just severely degenerated. But even if our world is so narrow-minded as to get a kick out of reading the details of some randoms love life, the media shouldn't fuel that desire. They should reflect a necessary, accurate depiction of what really happens in the world. and when i say the world, i mean the whole world, not just the developed, technologically supreme countries. We are the minority, and should be getting a whole better idea of how life really is for most humans. I have no desire to be informed of the precise dynamics of prominent figures sex lives. I mean, yes, very sad, very sad that they broke up, but in the great scheme of things, next to the famines, the wars, the hunger, the abuse...it amounts to nothing.

off to do history essay. It's so depressing researching Fascism. We have to write an empathy essay on one of Hitler's Henchman. to explain why they supported hitler...background stuff. I think it's a good idea- we can only truly understand why x acted in such a why if we contextualise. Projecting todays values and attitudes on a past era is a bad idea.