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When Shannon's 17 year old daughter Ashley asked about driving the family golf cart around the neighborhood with her little sister, Gabriella, 6, Shannon wasn't concerned. He trusted Ashley with the family car, so why not the golf cart. They are used a lot in his Lakeland Community.

But Gabriella, fell from the cart and died from head injuries sustained as a result of the fall.

When Wiegert finds himself unable to sleep or overwhelmed by grief, he gets on the Internet and looks for ways to keep other children from getting hurt riding on golf carts.

His internet searches revealed that there are not consistent laws, or ordinances which protect children.

"Everybody says it's somebody else's responsibility," Wiegert says.

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When a cat catches a mouse his attention is absolute to the exclusion of everything else. A cat will spend an inordinate amount of time killing a mouse. And when the mouse is dead the cat's interest evaporates and he moves on to something else.

This is pretty much how TV handles local news: It takes a story (important or not), spends an inordinate amount of time on it. And when it feels the story is dead, it moves on.

Take, for example, the recent sad story of one New Trier High School student hitting another student with her car and then fleeing the scene in panic.

It was an accident affecting, really, only the two students and their families. A tragedy for both.

Continue reading " TV's Fickle News Fixation " »