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Re: new oil leak in the gulf
Kind of a spin off....I heard a blurb on NPR yesterday about how crazy it is that people are in such a tizzy about the oil spill when in reality the daily destruction in the rainforest is a MUCH more catastrophic environmental problem. It's a weird phenomenon how we (society as a whole) "attach" ourselves to a tragedy while turning a blind eye towards another one.
Overall the whole oil spill business gives me a tummy ache. :-(
I would imagine a lot of that has to do with publicity and proximity.
Conspiracy theory time!
Wellheads are very well marked and are supposed to be fortified, so I am predicting lots of people questioning how a tugboat could hit it and do so much damage.
Hopefully this will be a very small, easily fixable leak.
The nerve!
House | Blog
I certainly agree that the US is generally egocentric, but for discussion sake, wouldn't any country be more apt to care about an environmental disaster directly affecting them than one on a broader, more ignorable scale?
Oh totally.
I just thought it was an interesting point they made. I guess I have never fully grasped the enormity of the rainforest destruction so it put it into perspective for me a bit. But I think it is a bit of an "out of sight out of mind" type of deal.
Basically the earth is screwed no matter what way you slice the pie :-/
care more, yes. but cover it ad nauseum and ignore other issues, no. the news is very different overseas. i miss it.
Agreed. Something that really bothers me about the local news, besides the ad nauseum coverage and dramatics, is how every story has to have some connection to St. Louis. If a mother gives birth to a half kangaroo half baby in New Zealand someone will see footage of the woman's home and there will be a bobble head of Dwight K. Schrute and they'll say "I have this same bobble head. This affects me deeply." And whabam! somehow St. Louis has a connection. Maybe I need to move to another city and I'd find it's the same everywhere, but I really hate our local news teams.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
of course we don't. it has nothing to do with Houston
Winged, there are absolutely people who hope it does happen. I can understand why, because for example, Bonnie dwindling into nothing made for a really difficult weekend for Brett. But obviously for him, that's still preferable to a hurricane. Some people that he works with would rather have the story. There is one producer there that's particularly creepy about fires, to the point that we sometimes joke that he starts them just to have a story.
As for the local connection thing, I agree with you. But they do a shiitload of research and polling, and there are things that they pretty much have to do to please the parent companies. "Local connections" are one of those things, along with viral videos and a bunch of other stuff they hate. It would probably be different if every station wasn't owned by a handful of companies.
The nerve!
House | Blog
Our local PBS station shows the BBC news every night. We don't watch US network news anymore, local or national. BBC and Jon Stewart! lol
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
We get our daily Kyron Horman updates on the Today show. F and I always make up stories about our weird neighbors. Recently they've stopped parking their car in their garage, instead parking it on the side of their house. F has surmised that they are holding Kyron in their garage and have no room for the car.
Oil leaked into the gulf every day for decades before DH and will again. Minor oil spills happen all the time.
Only 17-20% of the seafood consumed in the United States is actually farmed here.
Sounds like this article says it will be contained within a day.
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
SB i understand why it happens, it is what people want.
so why did the lack of Bonnie make it harder?
The Sunday show is generally more of a community events slant, so they have people from local charities, local restaurants, and stuff like that, and it's scheduled a few weeks in advance. For this Sunday, they rescheduled everything so they could do basically the entire show on weather. Called in an extra weatherman, had people travel to Grand Isle, had people coming in to help him, all that jazz. When it turned out to be a thunderstorm, he had to build the entire show from scratch without an editor, because they had told her not to come in since they wouldn't really need editing for that type of coverage. And of course the extra help didn't come in since it was just a normal show. So he ended up having to go in Saturday evening and work all night and apparently the show still kind of sucked.
The nerve!
House | Blog
thats rough
Yeah, but I mean that's the business he's in. And he generally likes it, but slow news days can make for a rough day. So I understand that excitement about something happening, but I think it's important for them to realize that there are people behind the stories.
The nerve!
House | Blog
Yeah, I live on the gulf. I'm talking about locally farmed seafood.
I hate that they seem to lose their human decency the second they become reporters. Or their ability to see how ridiculous they are.
Whenever the wind blows a little harder than normal or snow falls from the sky, news stations have to put 14 reporters out in the field to tell us that the weather is bad there too. Because I wouldn't have known it was snowing without seeing a reporter standing in the cold and attempting to scrape ice off a car's windshield.
Or the awesome hard-hitting questions they ask such as, "How do you feel hearing that the man you're convinced murdered your daughter just got off due to a technicality?" Why is it standard to ask people how they feel about things when it's pretty obvious how they feel. Morons.
With the latest Kyron Horman thing, they were standing outside the house of the lady who is currently being questioned. They were sure to zoom in on her address as well as the license plate of her car. I couldn't help but marvel at what giant douchebags they are. If this woman is guilty of something, let her pay. But there's no reason to stomp all over her privacy and invite crazies to her house because she may or may not know something about this little kid.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Ugh, these kind of statements irk me. it's like saying "oh well, we're all just ignorant americans" YUCK.
it's called being human. even if I had the time/energy/desire to be cognisant of every tragedy/wrong doing out there, I'd be broke and in the looney bin.
if it's human, why is it not a noticeable trait in other countries? and you can make the ignorant jump if you want, but that is a huge jump, not what i said and seems awfully defensuve,
and the other part is our US news is focused on tragedy, which you pointed out here. we is our news always negative?