Carlie Brucia's body found

[Griff]

I was reflecting on my reaction to this whole thing and I think I stumbled upon my core problem with media hysteria. We've been looking at locus of control as it relates to kids with learning disabilities. There is a tendency among these kids to believe that the things that happen to them are completely unrelated to what they're doing. The classic example is the kid that is always late to class. It's always the fault of other people or the system. It's never that he's stopping to see the girlfriend, get a soda, go to his locker etc... Anyway this is called an external locus of control, it breeds despair and subverts personal responsibility attacking the very core of our American value structure. I think that when media builds up these external terrors they are really attacking free society. We start looking to lawmakers to solve problems that can be addressed by the individual.