Plane Crashed and Entertainment

While I am on the subject of planes, I have to voice some thoughts about how people are far too sensitive. In this particular case I am referring to a big controversy surrounding Conan O'Brien's introduction to the Emmy Awards which featured a parody of the show 'Lost' in which Conan's plane goes down and he get stranded on an island. It just so happened that earlier in the week there actually was a plane crash where several people died. Then everyone comes out and cries that the intro was in poor taste. The intro was not even about that crash; it was a parody of a show. If the parody was in bad taste, then the entire show must be in bad taste. If there was some sort of terrorist attack the week of the Emmy's people would probably be crying that Conan also featured a parody of '24' in the intro. Sometimes planes crash and sometimes terrorists strike and it seems that in some respect that we find these events entertaining. If this were not true these situations would not be a central theme to many of our popular television shows. If a skit or show has the misfortune of bad timing then some consider it to be in poor taste, but if the timing is okay then we give it a little metal statue to show how much we like it.