Thanks for everyone's support on this recent endeavor! Also thanks for everyone who's given me topics (or inspired topics just by reviewing). I will somehow incorporate them in one form or another if the Lady Kayura wishes to speak on it. :sweatdrop: Whatever moves the brush pen, as you all know.

Also, Aeris. No one personally attacked me or my work so you can put the carving knife away. Hehehe. I'll tell you in more detail later, when I finally get time to email (like in two weeks) :sweatdrops: but basically, I was feeling righteously angry and felt like throwing myself into a flame war, just to prove a point. I've been feeling a little confrontational lately.

Note: For this entry, please keep in mind where and when Kayura's from. Thank you.

"The Kayura Diaries"
Or
"The Woes of Being Head Hon...chette"
By Little Ucchan

-Entry 02: The Media-

Ah, so it seems that I am to write something of semi importance this time around, though I am not sure why myself this particular topic comes to mind. I, of course, am no stranger to mass chaos, and the scene at one of the American states, Louisiana, Mia had told me, should, by all means, not disturb me a great deal.

True, I am an enlightened individual, trained in the ways of the Ancient One, and my path to spiritualism does place me, on a level, to be compassionate and emphatic towards the tragedies of others. Which I expect and which I've already come accustomed to. But this is somehow different in the emotions it stirs and the level of intensity. And I believe it partly has to do with the nature of how it was broadcast, and partly because of Torrent and Hardrock.

First of all, I am a bit aghast at how the American media is so ready to broadcast the immensity of devastation and chaos to its own public. I find this fault in the nature of media itself, with its ability to emotionally detach itself from what it is reporting and at the same time, add more drama where it is not needed. Tragedy is already dramatic. There is no need to "add a spin" to it, as the saying goes. And I find it outright appalling that so many reporters were on location, interviewing passing survivors on what it feels like to have survived a tragedy, or stopping law enforcers and transport drivers, who are supposed to be responding to an emergency situation, and asking for the latest development on the relief effort! I am not sure what it is about the media, but if I was stopped by a reporter during the final battle with Talpa and asked, "So how's the fight going?" I would think I would be in the right mind to smack him upside the head with my shakujou and scream, "What do you think!"

Alas, I am not sure I quite understand media. As a broadcasting tool to keep a public aware, yes, I suppose it has its uses, though how much the actual truth is stretched is astounding to say the very least. Strata had told me, when I had inexplicably showed up at his apartment and "vented" to him about the matter (which I am still embarrassed about), that the mission of journalists, in a way, is like its cousin, the writers: to record life, with all its beauties and blemishes, in the face of adversity and great joy. And in that regard, if that is what they are doing in light of their own personal feelings on the matter, then I will give them my respect.

The way they put together their news reports, however, is another story. And all other forms of entertainment that I have seen that is not news related, again, is another story. I do not think I will get into that subject in this entry. My relationship with the television is of the love-hate kind, and, regrettably, screaming at mortals I see in the little black box is not as satisfying as screaming at them in person…

-Continued in next entry-