Main Menu

News Coverage

Started by RAT900, March 30, 2011, 04:19:30 AM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1 2 3 4
User actions

RAT900

March 30, 2011, 04:19:30 AM
So having the morning coffee...flipping between CNN and Fox...

I now deduce (based on reporting/coverage) that Japan is no longer a news item....

the reactors are probably fixed and life there has probably returned to a degree of normalcy to the extent that no further coverage is required

radioactivity spread and contamination issues have evaporated


However I now understand the greatest current threat to mankind and the planet

is in Libya and the news coverage about this deadly planetary threat must run continuously 24x7


I hate the "news" media propaganda program...

selectively pimped by cosmetic cupcakes and Ken Doll dummies
This is an insult to the Pez community

zooom

#1
March 30, 2011, 04:21:01 AM
when I watch the news, I prefer to watch BBC America....just sayin...
99 Cagiva Gran Canyon-"FOR SALE", PM for details.
98 Monster 900(trackpregnant dog-soon to be made my Fiancee's upgrade streetbike)
2010 KTM 990 SM-T

wbeck257

#2
March 30, 2011, 04:54:40 AM
Unscientific based on their website:

BBC: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
FOX: Lead = Libya, Japan = 3rd
CNN: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
NPR: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
ABC: Lead = Japan, Libya = Not on the front page.

Looks like Japan is still leading the (web) news.
2006 Ducati S2R1000, 1974 Honda MT125, 1974 Penton Jackpiner 175, 1972 Yamaha R5

Speedbag

#3
March 30, 2011, 04:58:23 AM
Japan was so three weeks ago.

:P

I, too, hate the media.....
I tend to regard most of humanity as little more than walking talking dilated sphincters. - Rat

metallimonster

#4
March 30, 2011, 05:09:00 AM
I was just thinking about this while I got ready for work.

There was a 25 year old mom missing for a week in Southern Ohio, they found her last night in a church septic tank. First thing out of the anchor's mouth; "A story we brought to you first".  Who gives a make the beast with two backs that you broke the story first there is a mother of 3 kids dead and stuffed in a septic tank.
Wherever I May Roam, Where I Lay My Head Is Home
02 620 Dark- High Mount CF Arrows

ducpainter

#5
March 30, 2011, 05:24:13 AM
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


RAT900

#6
March 30, 2011, 05:25:00 AM
Quote from: metallimonster on March 30, 2011, 05:09:00 AM
I was just thinking about this while I got ready for work.

There was a 25 year old mom missing for a week in Southern Ohio, they found her last night in a church septic tank. First thing out of the anchor's mouth; "A story we brought to you first".  Who gives a make the beast with two backs that you broke the story first there is a mother of 3 kids dead and stuffed in a septic tank.

Oh yes the media's Human "Dung Beetles"  

that make a feast out of life's shit...

"we found this turd of tragedy first!!!  stay tuned we are going to ask her daughter if she's upset that her mother was strangled with her own entrails"

I guess it should be no surprise...they pander to everyone's ghoulish morbidity....like traffic jams caused by accident rubber-neckers looking for the gore on the side of the road....I always lay on the horn and keep it down when someone slows or stops to stare
This is an insult to the Pez community

RAT900

#7
March 30, 2011, 05:32:10 AM
Quote from: wbeck257 on March 30, 2011, 04:54:40 AM
Unscientific based on their website:

BBC: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
FOX: Lead = Libya, Japan = 3rd
CNN: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
NPR: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
ABC: Lead = Japan, Libya = Not on the front page.

Looks like Japan is still leading the (web) news.

I would not argue website reporting

that but the TV screen is all Khaddafy all the time
This is an insult to the Pez community

herm

#8
March 30, 2011, 05:34:41 AM
vote with your remote.
If you drive the nicest car in the neighborhood, work in a cash business, and don't pay taxes, you're either a preacher or a drug dealer...

RAT900

#9
March 30, 2011, 05:48:33 AM
Quote from: herm on March 30, 2011, 05:34:41 AM
vote with your remote.

or shotgun....

unfortunately I just got sucked into wanting to know what was going on in Japan

and how far-reaching the contamination is projected to spread...

so I stayed in front of the TV for too long...fully believing they would switch over to the news in the PacRim

before realizing as Speedbag put it that "Japan was so 3 weeks ago"
This is an insult to the Pez community

The Architect

#10
March 30, 2011, 05:53:59 AM
Quote from: RAT900 on March 30, 2011, 04:19:30 AM

I hate the "news" media propaganda program...

selectively pimped by cosmetic cupcakes and Ken Doll dummies

Very accurate description.

We as mankind have evolved a good deal.  But a good car wreck, murdered mom, scenes of looting, etc. will bring us right back to the days of throwing Christians to the lions.  And the "news media", they know what sells.

Quote from: herm on March 30, 2011, 05:34:41 AM
vote with your remote.

People are and that's why we have the news we have now.

And as far as the actual news, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. 


I'm sticking with Mr. Judge on this one.

"Idiocracy" introduction - the future of human evolution

fastwin

#12
March 30, 2011, 07:11:25 AM
That Idiocracy video cracks me up! [laugh] Funny, my wife and I have had a similar discussion many times. :P

The news is what it is. I have to watch (and read on line) several news programs to feel like I have gotten most (never all) of the story. It's a business and they are selling ads just like magazines and newspapers. That won't ever change.
I plan to list the Federal Gov't. as a dependent on my next 1040 tax filing!

I have flying honey badgers and I'm not afraid to use them!

The fact that flame throwers exist is proof that someone somewhere said "I'd sure like to set those people over there on fire but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

CONFIDENCE: the feeling you have right before you understand the situation.

Statler

#13
March 30, 2011, 07:16:26 AM
It's scary listening to stuff on local tv news that is truly just made up about the juvenile cases I do.    I know fact checking is difficult with a confidential system, but every time it appears they truly just invent shit to say.  No info?  just wing it.

It's still buy a flounder a drink month

LMT

#14
March 30, 2011, 07:24:09 AM
 [popcorn]

I don't have a TV. I listen to the radio for most of my news.  NPR and the BBC only. I do read CNN and the 2 local newspapers online. I see tv sometimes and wonder who people can stand it.
Print
Go Up Pages1 2 3 4
User actions