Most Important News Story of 2004

[MA-Caver]

Problem is, importance is relative.

Not to mention sometimes ... it's depressing

We get alot of serious stuff in the study and have a lot of heavy brow topics.
Beginning to wonder if us DEEP thinkers will ever lighten up? *grins*

Still, there are/were news-worthy topics that didn't make the front page. But we don't control the media now do we? heh

 

[kenpo tiger]

Not to mention sometimes ... it's depressing

We get alot of serious stuff in the study and have a lot of heavy brow topics.
Beginning to wonder if us DEEP thinkers will ever lighten up? *grins*

Still, there are/were news-worthy topics that didn't make the front page. But we don't control the media now do we? heh

So true. I just walked out of the room because watching footage of a house fire while it was happening, reports on laser beams being direted at airplanes in our area, Flight 103 being downed by an altimeter in someone's watch and now we're all having our watches, shoes, whatever examined, the tsunami footage, the firefighters shaving their heads in solidarity with their brother who has cancer, yet another police funeral in our area...... you get the point.

Maybe a little levity ain't so bad.

 

[Cryozombie]

Right???

I dont think a news story to be IMPORTANT, has to be one of despiar...

That's why the one I posted, which, as I said may not be the MOST important was one of hope...

 

[psi_radar]

I think one of the most important stories is the growing bias and pandering of mass media to our current administration or the government in general. For instance, how our tvs are currently inundated with images of bloated and disfigured bodies from the tsunami, but I've never seen similarly graphic images from the Iraq conflict. A comparable number of people have died in Iraq as a result of our actions, 100,000 (estimated) and we never see the nasty results. The pictures are out there, just google "Iraq war photos" and you'll have enough grisliness to last days. This is an ongoing tragedy, on both sides, that for some reason doesn't get airtime.

Why is this? Is it ok to show what nature does, and not what we do? Or is it that confronted with the unseemly truth we might lose our resolve, or doubt our leaders, their decisions and policies? And do these leaders have some sway in what we're seeing, and therefore are deliberately suppressing the truth to promote their agenda? Now there's a story.

 

[kenpo tiger]

I think one of the most important stories is the growing bias and pandering of mass media to our current administration or the government in general. For instance, how our tvs are currently inundated with images of bloated and disfigured bodies from the tsunami, but I've never seen similarly graphic images from the Iraq conflict. A comparable number of people have died in Iraq as a result of our actions, 100,000 (estimated) and we never see the nasty results. The pictures are out there, just google "Iraq war photos" and you'll have enough grisliness to last days. This is an ongoing tragedy, on both sides, that for some reason doesn't get airtime.

Why is this? Is it ok to show what nature does, and not what we do? Or is it that confronted with the unseemly truth we might lose our resolve, or doubt our leaders, their decisions and policies? And do these leaders have some sway in what we're seeing, and therefore are deliberately suppressing the truth to promote their agenda? Now there's a story.

A tragic, accidental disaster gains far more sympathy and public support than a cold, calculating one.