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The_Angel_of_Death
Join Date: 2003-11-19 Member: 23184Members
Join Date: 2003-11-19 Member: 23184Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">getting depressing...</div> Every couple of days we hear about some terrorist attacks and I can tell you it gets depressing fast. The sad thing is this will never end, just think about it. Israel was getting bombed every other day for a while after 911 it seemed and all of a sudden americans think terrorism is due to 911. This may be one of the reasons, but Isreal has been under threat of terrorist attacks for as long as it's short creation. Same thing in the 90's, we had the olympic bombings..80's in germany the Baader Mein Hoff gang was terrorizing our bases over their. Not to mention the Isreal olympic team was killed by another middle east terrorist group and an airliner was hijacked and luckily successfully rescued. The list could go on into caveman times, though the methods do get a tad-bit cruder. The media can't wait to throw news of the latest bombing into our face and I'm not seeing an end to that depressing area.
Murders are the second hottest item it seems on the TV. I come home and turn on the TV and see pictures of a guy who may have killed his pregneat wife. Great. Or even better some celebrity child molesters ( I know not proven), like I wanna hear about that on the way to work or about Martha Stewert being convicted on all these charges The only good news is that some kid in asia (always in asia it seems in the news) fell down a well and was luckily saved in time before a monsoon. Good for him, but I still picture that poor guy in the dark, damp well and put myself in his postition. Maybe I am just a depressed person, but is anyone else getting tired of all the bad news?
Murders are the second hottest item it seems on the TV. I come home and turn on the TV and see pictures of a guy who may have killed his pregneat wife. Great. Or even better some celebrity child molesters ( I know not proven), like I wanna hear about that on the way to work or about Martha Stewert being convicted on all these charges The only good news is that some kid in asia (always in asia it seems in the news) fell down a well and was luckily saved in time before a monsoon. Good for him, but I still picture that poor guy in the dark, damp well and put myself in his postition. Maybe I am just a depressed person, but is anyone else getting tired of all the bad news?
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Like it or not, as long as the newspapers are driven by money, bad news will always be the headline.
No News Is Good News.
good news is no news.
Z.X. Bogglesteinsky is right on there, which newspaper would you buy "hundreds killed in bomb attack!" or "puppys born!" ?
its just a sad fact that all the good things that happen are small and so are deemed insignificant, and a lot of the abd things are big and so are deemed important :/
The only way you can truly know something anymore is to see it for yourself.
That's self-contradictory. What hits the headlines is what people want to hear, because the request for those news is what makes newspapers put it on their headlines. The reason there's more money in bad news is because people BUY the papers with bad news.
I think another point that's important to consider is location. It's my impression that media in USA are more focused on such "mob-feeding" news than they are here in Denmark, where I live, because I don't really see that many murders and terrorist attacks on the headlines. Of cause, I've never really followed the american media, so I might just be plain wrong <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That's self-contradictory. What hits the headlines is what people want to hear, because the request for those news is what makes newspapers put it on their headlines. The reason there's more money in bad news is because people BUY the papers with bad news.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
People are interested in them but don't actually <i>like</i> them. That's why they're called <i>bad</i> news :/
Kind of the same thing. Seems people are interested in unpleasant things. Same reason people watch horror movies I guess (never got the point in that <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
I refuse to believe that people have <i>interest</i> in random murder episodes. I bet no one remembers who killed who a few days ago. I think people who buy papers for the murders read them for entertainment, not to get news from the world.
I do, but not in a sick twisted sense. I have always been fascinated by the mental make-up of the person who can kill his entire family and then sit down and read the newspaper with a glass of OJ.
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Lotta people die everyday, but I know of atleast a couple murders that hit the headlines. Sad news as always...
Like it or not, as long as the newspapers are driven by money, bad news will always be the headline. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Very true.
But I have to agree, it does get sad. Well put Angel.
But you're not looking for that mental make-up in the news, are you?
Not directly, but it is where I can hear about it. If I am really bored I can even listen to some expert talk about it. May not be in a newspaper, but it sometimes can find it's way into the news