Poor Poor Whitney....

Before I go on my rant here, I want to start off by saying yes, I feel bad that Whitney Houston died. I grew up listening to her, and she was an amazing artist. I love her music and "Bodyguard" is one of my favorite movies. What I feel the worst about is that her daughter lost her mother. This child will go the rest of her life with a piece missing from her heart and my heart aches for her. The worst part for Whitney's daughter will be that all she will hear about is how her mother was a drug addict and screwed up her career and blah blah blah....we know the tabloids won't let that child grieve in peace. Now for the rant.....it sickens me to open a news website's page and the TOP STORY is about what may have caused Whitney Houston's death. This is the most important thing happening in the world right now? This is what we need to read about first? NO! No it is not! I cannot believe that the people running these sites are allowing this to be top story news! Top entertainment news I can deal with....but not the first thing I see when I open the main page! The night she passed away, I was watching a special on MSNBC about juveniles in lockup and then, right in the middle of the show, they interrupted to tell us all about Whitney. Yes, I was shocked and yes, I wanted to hear what happened. What I didn't want was for the network to continue this coverage for most of the remainder of the evening. So, I change the channel, and what do I see? CNN, Fox News, local news...all of them the same thing. Which again, I get it, a famous and tabloid money making singer has passed and everyone wants to know "was it drugs?" But not ALL NIGHT LONG. That was ridiculous. I finally just had to watch a movie to get away from it, although I almost half expected HBO to be talking about it too. I feel for the family, and I feel for her friends, coworkers, Clive Davis...all those who were close to her. But you know who I feel more sorrow for? The soldier's families. The ones over in Afghanistan right now fighting the war. I feel more sorrow for the children in Syria who have no idea what is going on right now in their country yet are most likely terrified of what they are probably hearing outside their doors. I feel more sorrow for the two Powell boys who never had a chance because they had a sick father. I feel more sorrow for the little girl in Wisconsin who was found walking barefoot in the cold because she was trying to get away from her abusive parents. All this just really hit a sore spot with me. I will admit that I am curios as to how this happened to her at the age of only 48. That's way to young to die. I hope that it was not drugs for Whitney's daughter's sake. But if it was, then I am only more angered because she made top news for basically killing herself.