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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 11/26/2002 : 03:45:55 [Permalink]
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I think its a perception that's been created by the mass media in the last 20 years. I'm not blaming the media for this mind you, they're just doing the reporting.
Everything is live now. No lag.
Sure, a horrific flood is news, but when we were stuck with just print and what the three networks wanted to report, the flood event could get pushed for something "bigger". (and this is even before Britney and Justin broke up)
How many people here have new sites bookmarked? Show of hands? Okay, how many different news sites do you have bookmarked? 4? 5?
Both De_Bunk and TitanPoint are lying, I know they have more than that, they just don't want to appear to be total news geeks.
We have more information at our fingertips now than any time in history. Before the advent of CNN and the internet, we would occasionally read about a flood in Bangladesh.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 11/26/2002 : 04:27:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by @tomic
Snake, this is just one of those casual remarks that is supposed to make us consider changing our ways 'cause the end is a comin'!
Okie dokie!
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And you completely glossed over the influenza outbreak of 1917-1918. Union Carbide.
As for vals comment(above), perhaps I should have added, 'to name a few'.
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Although, it's not an uncommon thing for the young to say after a big disaster. The problem there is that they are looking at history from an especially narrow perspective in terms of years. I think I thought at one time in my youth and to this day feel really silly about it. But if you've seen one earthquake, to you it is the biggest damn disaster ever.
@tomic
And that's why we are pointing out all the other events.
Is this the time to bring up that the schools and education is lacking more then ever before. (or did someone already do that?) |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 11/26/2002 : 04:41:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Baza
The perception that things like disasters are getting worse, with more apparent crime etc, are surely down to news being much more easily diseminated through the media. A few years ago, much of the disasters we see today would not be reported at home and therefore not generally known about. I guess its a case of the more we know the more worry about it.
Isn't that funny, I was talking to Dennis today about the news reports the last few days calling Los Angeles the murder capital of the USA and they keep reporting on every murder now. As a volunteer with the police some years ago I'd have occassion to be in the roll call room where they had photos of criminals they were looking for with discriptions of what the people had done. Among the many there was one memorable one about a guy who threw another guy out a 2nd story window in a dispute over a poker game. That was never on the news back then yet worthy of reporting as much as what's going on now.
During this past summer when we heard about all the children getting kiddnaped or when there's a major fire, doesn't there seem to be a rash of any one of those types of goings on? I think they are always there, the news doesn't report everything but when somethings a topical story they try to find ALL the same kinds of things to put to the public. Sensationalism!
So, that's why one might think there's a lot more deaths or disasters when they are about the same. |
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