Great news! Another tragedy.

Last night, August 14, NBC news led off with the collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair. They had the proper solemn tone of voice as they told us what a horrific tragedy it was, how many people were killed (4 at that time), and about the many acts of bravery. The point was that this was a terrible, hideous, horrible incident. Having established that they showed the terrifying footage again again and again. They ran the collapse of that scaffolding which injured and maimed so many people at least seven times. They showed us smiling photos of happy people, now dead. What am I missing here? Is the news actually delighted that this tragedy occurred? Are they crying crocodile tears because really, they're thrilled to be able to show this very disturbing footage endlessly to fill up their news time. When someone comments to me that what a terrible event it was, do they really want to say, "Did you see that neat footage of the collapsing stage?" Are we really a nation of ghouls pretending to be compassionate? We must be. Otherwise the news would say, "A stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair killing four and hurting many others. Unfortunately the footage is too disturbing to show." in the same way we don't show the mutilated bodies of murder victims. But if we could, I'm sure the national news would be delighted to run that gruesome footage again and again while the anchor sadly reminded us how upsetting it is.