one saved plane crash VS genocide: no contest
how the US media managed to devote ALL of their news coverage to the plane crash, while a genocide was perpetrated with NO coverage... wow. skills. mad skills. (I was kicking it at a friend's place: in 10 hours, about 4 hours were devoted to the plane crash, about 5 minutes were allotted to the "war" (um, captive non-combatants in Gaza VS well-funded uber-equipped army: over 1000 casualties VS 15 casualties is a "war"?? haha). SO impressed. WTF. in all fairness, the pilot did a spot-on job. The media however went above and beyond to ignore a major humanitarian crisis...l yes, in contravention of the Geneva Accords, international war crimes committed, etc... and that's my 2 cents. (not adjusted for inflation) |
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| Say, what do you think you would do if Santa Rosa kept shooting rockets at you? Like day after day for years, air raid sirens go off and you have to scramble for cover, while you beg and plead with the world to help stop it and nobody pays any attention to you and the rockets, thousands of them by now, keep getting shot at you?
At a minimum I think you would ignore the world when you retaliated. Or wait a sec, maybe I misinterpreted what you were saying. Maybe you were complaining that the media was ignoring all those rockets, but then suddenly took notice when the retaliation started. I could be very confused. |
| I'm as confused as Ron about your general miffed-ness, but it seems absolutely normal to me that the news would be filled with an amazingly GOOD thing that happened here in the US and not devoted to something that's been covered significantly over the last weeks in another area of the world.
Funny how normally the gripe about the media is how they only cover the "bad" and we never see how good things really are. Maybe changing the channel would help. I keep up on the situation in Gaza just fine, without having to search at all - it's just there. I'm perfectly thrilled to have plenty of coverage about a true American hero who saved the lives of over 150 people in one fell swoop.  |
| I'm confused too. I don't know, I think that a large local event took over the news media for a day or two, when the Gaza situation had been covered extensively for the last few weeks, is fine. If they had NEVER reported on it, or had only spent 5 minutes total this whole time it was happening, I think that'd be a whole different story. |
| With so much tragedy and despair that goes on globally it was nice to see such coverage on a potential plane disaster that turned into a wonderfull news worthy story for a change, it displayed hope, fantastic heroism by the pilot and crew and all lives saved, yep even an Aussie was on board that flight, so a wonderfull story of survival rather then all lives lost.
Yes trouble in the Gaza strip but do you think it will ever be resolved? Yes awfull things going on but it has been this way for decades and unless there is a compromise it will continue, I think people become immune to what is going on there and seems to be the same old same old every few years. Hopefully common sense will prevail and the two can come to a happy solution of Co-existence for the sake of the children and everyone that lives in that region. |
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