Benoit and the media

I had earlier in the day decided I wasn't going to retouch the subject especially since everyone else is across the board but it has become an interesting exercise in a media study of spin.

Here are the facts:

Chris Benoit is dead and he more then likely murdered his wife and child before he committed suicide. These are facts that aren't likely to change.

But here's where the weird aspect of the media comes in and spin.

Monday night, the WWE's website was filled with tidbits about Benoit his death and his life.

RAW (the WWE's monday night wrestling program) was not live. They canceled the sold out live event and instead paid tribute to their fallen co-worker both in comments and be rebroadcasting his finest matches.

This was all before the WWE and the public knew what had happened.

Now if you go through the WWE's website, there is only one mention of him and that regards the facts as the WWE knows them. All mentions of Benoit have been deleted from various things (take a look through the dvd section of their online store for instance) and the tributes have been taken down. The tribute show will not be re-broadcast.

In many ways this is the most respectful the WWE has ever been about such things.

And the wwe has also made a statement regarding how steroids more then likely did not cause this tragedy.

I believe that is what they refer to in movies as "batting down the hatches"

Now on to me.

I was a little torn on if I should take down my previous post in light to the new facts. I've decided that I would just in light of the fact that something I had heard along the line is wrong about a man I respected. And he has two children who are still out there and for the time being I don't want them coming across the post praising their Dad who may have murdered their brother.