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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Heck, I spent YEARS learning not to pee in bed! Now you tell me that there's a way I could have been doing it in an acceptable manner?!? 
Stitchawl |
Acceptable right up until it spills !!
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I'm really getting ticked off with the media regarding the crisis in Japan...
The low, underhanded ploys for attention that the media use do nothing other than exacerbate people's fears and worries.....
Now that the Sendai region is beginning to dig itself out from the destruction wrought by the tsunami, the biggest news is about the problems with the nuclear reactor. So of course, the media whores need to play on world insecurities to maintain rating points....
Today, CNN headlines:
"Radiation tests on planes from Japan yield positive blips."
The copy goes on to read;
(CNN) -- Heightened radiation screening on flights arriving in the United States from Japan has triggered several low-level alerts.
An American Airlines plane that arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from Tokyo on Wednesday created a blip on equipment being used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to screen inbound flights for radioactivity.
But it's not until the sixth paragraph that they say;
"No aircraft entering the United States has tested positive for radiation at harmful levels," according to a CBP statement Thursday."
The flight was carrying medical isotopes, being sold to US hospitals, but that doesn't make for such hot headlines...
Is it any wonder that I receive 5-10 e-mails a day from people believing that everyone in Japan now glows in the dark!
Stitchawl |
I agree completely, I've stopped watching my local news channels as of a few years ago. Every day they would have some teaser on telling you about some amazing thing that will change your life, or some earth shattering news about someone that will change how you feel about them. Then you watch the news, and they string you along through out the entire broadcast, telling you to "stay tuned", "keep watching", "don't miss this", "coming up soon", and then the very last thing on the broadcast, after you've waited and watched the rest of inane "news", they tell you that the in depth, under cover reporting they did at the local schools, the fact that you can't miss, that will change your life and affect where you send you kids for years to come is ..... there is this one school, a couple of years, just this one time, served rolls with their hot lunch that had gone over the expiration date by 1 day.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
It's all about the rating and nothing about content or anything anyone can actually use.