How much longer???

Byrnzie

So, I turn on CNN this morning - it's the only English speaking news (I use the word 'News' loosely) channel available to me here - and I find that they are still running 24hr non-stop coverage of the Virginia tech shootings.
How much longer do I have to endure this shit? Has nothing else happened in the world this week? For example, did not 200 Iraqis - mainly women and children - get blown to bits on Wednesday? Did not another 60 get murdered on Thursday? e.t.c, e.t.c.
Why is it that when some Americans die the planet Earth stops moving around the sun?
I'm now beginning to understand why many Americans are a tad blinkered. And why those Americans who aren't blinkered deserve special praise for having found the strength of mind and character to see above and beyond the daily bombardment of skewered, half-assed media reportage.

I mean, come on CNN! Everything in perspective please!


Edit: Apologies for the '..longer longer???' I've just woken up.

norm

i wish i had an answer for ya.........i've given up watching the media..........i can get my news elsewhere.......

lucylespian

I dunno man, but I think that it is Iraqi's who are doing the bombing of their own people.

It's a funny way to protest the American presence, bombing your own people. The Yanks would probably be out of there in a day if the bombs would stop.

I would be more dismayed if America didn't give a shit about this shooting, something has to wake them up.

Ahnimus

lucylespian wrote:

I dunno man, but I think that it is Iraqi's who are doing the bombing of their own people.

It's a funny way to protest the American presence, bombing your own people. The Yanks would probably be out of there in a day if the bombs would stop.

I would be more dismayed if America didn't give a shit about this shooting, something has to wake them up.

I thought Bush was setting up 9 permanent military basis in Iraq?

Byrnzie

lucylespian wrote:

I dunno man, but I think that it is Iraqi's who are doing the bombing of their own people.

It's a funny way to protest the American presence, bombing your own people. The Yanks would probably be out of there in a day if the bombs would stop.

I would be more dismayed if America didn't give a shit about this shooting, something has to wake them up.

Those bombings aren't being carried out with the aim of protesting the American presence. They're the result of sectarian strife. The Yanks aren't going to simply walk out of there, because the main reason they invaded in the first place was to seize control of the country's oil supply. The crooks in D.C will stick it out as long as they can, because the U.S troops over there putting their lives on the line are expendable, and the Iraqis being killed every day are irrelevant.

lucylespian

Byrnzie wrote:

Those bombings aren't being carried out with the aim of protesting the American presence. They're the result of sectarian strife. The Yanks aren't going to simply walk out of there, because the main reason they invaded in the first place was to seize control of the country's oil supply. The crooks in D.C will stick it out as long as they can, because the U.S troops over there putting their lives on the line are expendable, and the Iraqis being killed every day are irrelevant.

See, I see it as just politicised thuggery. Every culture has it's violent anti-social thugs. In peaceful countries they become crimnals and serial killers and rapist and wife beaters. In Ireland, and teh Middle East, and Basque and probably South America, they politicise their violence to justify it.
It's still Iraqis doing the exploding, whatever their justification.

MLC2006

you're in a foreign country watching an American news station. so if you don't like the news that's being shown, you could always turn it to another station. or you could find a tall building to jump off. either way, the problem would be easily solved.

Skitch Patterson

Why Does ESPN show damn much Sports!!!

RolandTD20Kdrummer

New US embassy in Iraq....

"The fortress-like compound rising on the banks of the Tigris River will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City in Rome, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq's turbulent future."

When complete, the embassy will have extensive housing and infrastructure facilities in addition to the usual diplomatic buildings. The buildings include:

* Six apartment buildings for employees
* Water and waste treatment facilities
* A power station
* Two "major diplomatic office buildings"
* Recreation, including a gym, cinema, and a swimming pool "rumored to be the biggest... in Iraq"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0415-07.htm

FinsburyParkCarrots

MLC2006 wrote:

you're in a foreign country watching an American news station. so if you don't like the news that's being shown, you could always turn it to another station. or you could find a tall building to jump off. either way, the problem would be easily solved.

CNN does have five international service stations, three outside of the US.

The remit of its brief is to provide a balance of world news, with attention to featuring specific broadcasting and news editing for the requirements of each station. In this respect it is trying to emulate the BBC World Service. However, as you'll note in this Wikipedia piece I've included, accusations of editorial bias at CNN International - favouring the importance of domestic US news - have been sounded.

CNN International has ambitions not to be "American", though it did seem to start out with an audience of travelling American businesspeople in mind.

Here's the Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_International

FinsburyParkCarrots

By way of contrast, here's the BBC World Service's website. The French presidential elections are the main story, as of my time of posting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/

somebodyelsessky2020

a car bombing in iraq is not unusual no matter how big or how many people are killed, it's almost expected like the sunrise and sunset. i think not just the u.s. but the world is accustomed or numb to the fact that this is a regular occurrence in most of the middle east. so no big surprise and nobody will turn on coverage and see it and be like oh my god no way this is unbelievable a car bombing in iraq your kidding what is our world coming to? the only thing that could happen to switch the VT coverage at this point would be a nuclear detonation wiping out a large portion of the country. that would send heraldo rivera and crew right into action and virginia tech would be set aside. our media thrives off pulling the heartstrings of all the american citizens until they've exhausted every possible avenue. school shootings are terrible tragedies and these were innocent kids trying to get educated and have a brighter future. it is not a setting you expect to be the scene of the greatest massacre in u.s. history.and therefore is a big ratings draw for our sensationalist media. so get accustomed to it or change the channel.

Byrnzie

MLC2006 wrote:

you're in a foreign country watching an American news station. so if you don't like the news that's being shown, you could always turn it to another station. or you could find a tall building to jump off. either way, the problem would be easily solved.

I've got 68 channels of Korean and Japanese wacky, pop crap to choose from. Jap t.v is bizarre man! - Lot's of 50 year old dudes dressed like Elvis and singing music that makes my ears bleed. (I feel like Bill Murray in 'Lost in translation' surfing through this stuff). Oh, and two of these channels show 24hr non-stop coverage of some dudes video game progress.
There's also 2 channels showing English and American movies - which seem to be my only escape. CNN is a fucking joke.

lucylespian

Byrnzie wrote:

I've got 68 channels of Korean and Japanese wacky, pop crap to choose from. Jap t.v is bizarre man! - Lot's of 50 year old dudes dressed like Elvis and singing music that makes my ears bleed. (I feel like Bill Murray in 'Lost in translation' surfing through this stuff). Oh, and two of these channels show 24hr non-stop coverage of some dudes video game progress.
There's also 2 channels showing English and American movies - which seem to be my only escape. CNN is a fucking joke.

So really, your problem is Korean and Japanese TV.
BTW, are you Korean, or an ex-pat ??

even flow?

Well it is not like this kind of thing ever happens in the US. They need their fill of it.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Byrnzie wrote:

I've got 68 channels of Korean and Japanese wacky, pop crap to choose from. Jap t.v is bizarre man! - Lot's of 50 year old dudes dressed like Elvis and singing music that makes my ears bleed. (I feel like Bill Murray in 'Lost in translation' surfing through this stuff). Oh, and two of these channels show 24hr non-stop coverage of some dudes video game progress.
There's also 2 channels showing English and American movies - which seem to be my only escape. CNN is a fucking joke.

Yeah but the variety of fresh Sushi available to you makes up for it no?

Oh...and also the kind you eat as well..

RolandTD20Kdrummer

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

CNN does have five international service stations, three outside of the US.

The remit of its brief is to provide a balance of world news, with attention to featuring specific broadcasting and news editing for the requirements of each station. In this respect it is trying to emulate the BBC World Service. However, as you'll note in this Wikipedia piece I've included, accusations of editorial bias at CNN International - favouring the importance of domestic US news - have been sounded.

CNN International has ambitions not to be "American", though it did seem to start out with an audience of travelling American businesspeople in mind.

Here's the Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_International

learned word of the day from that url: Jingoism gotta work that into a few sentences sometime

Jeanwah

I'm so psyched that there's finally a story in the media that makes them look as completely assinine as the media truly is. I mean, I've been against mainstream media because it's become entertainment rather than facts, and I'm just glad that the public is finally waking up, taking notice, and are as pissed off about it as I am. What NBC did yesterday, they should be boycotted by the public, in my opinion, for glorifying the killer. The only news source I really read nowadays is commandreams.org and the BBC news.

evenkat

Byrnzie wrote:

So, I turn on CNN this morning - it's the only English speaking news (I use the word 'News' loosely) channel available to me here - and I find that they are still running 24hr non-stop coverage of the Virginia tech shootings.
How much longer do I have to endure this shit? Has nothing else happened in the world this week? For example, did not 200 Iraqis - mainly women and children - get blown to bits on Wednesday? Did not another 60 get murdered on Thursday? e.t.c, e.t.c.
Why is it that when some Americans die the planet Earth stops moving around the sun?
I'm now beginning to understand why many Americans are a tad blinkered. And why those Americans who aren't blinkered deserve special praise for having found the strength of mind and character to see above and beyond the daily bombardment of skewered, half-assed media reportage.

I mean, come on CNN! Everything in perspective please!


Edit: Apologies for the '..longer longer???' I've just woken up.

It could be worse, they could be still going on and on about Anna Nicole Smith.

Pacomc79

unfortunately this is exactly the kind of crap that is the cause of copykat incidents.

It's going on all over the place.

I'm really sorry you have to watch CNN...