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| 04-29-11 08:14am - 4986 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Off topic - Tornados Most here have agreed about the recent Japanese disaster. I will not compare things - BUT still: The latest storm/tornado disaster in the Southern states of the USA is horrifying. Hundreds of people have died, far more have lost their relatives and friends and even more have lost their homes in Tuscaloosa, Al. and other places in the South. I feel the need to express my deepest sympathies with those victims - folks, try to imagine loosing everything....and it's somewhat strange: when disasters hit Asia, The third World ect. the sympathies are THERE - but when it hits The US - not so much in the world medias...  "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 04-29-11 10:07am - 4986 days | #2 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
The sympathy is still there, Denner. I know that my wife and I commiserate with the survivors and families of those who died and lost their homes. It's been a horrific spring on this continent, especially in its mid section. Between snow, floods, and now severe weather they haven't had it easy. Here on the East Coast of Canada we have been luckier, hardly any snow but mostly rain instead and we are thankful for that, even though April was rained out. | |
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| 04-29-11 10:23am - 4986 days | #3 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
You are correct that those tornoadoes were a tragedy and like the Japanese with fears of aftershocks. People in those regions still don't know if they aren't going to get more tornadoes. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 04-29-11 02:20pm - 4986 days | #4 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
First, I've never thought about how the media outside the US pays or doesn't pay attention to our disasters. My guess is that Katrina got a lot of play, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill did, too. What would make them notable and therefore in the same category as the disasters in Japan is that they were unusual. The idea of so much of New Orleans being under water was just unfathomable. And for four (I think four) nuclear reactors to go haywire in close succession anywhere is a lead story, as is an earthquake of the magnitude they had off the coast of Japan. We get nasty runs of tornadoes throughout the south and Great Midwest fairly regularly, though the recent one in the south was off the scale to be sure. I guess the media missed one this time, then. Thanks for thinking of us here, Denner! It is appreciated. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 04-29-11 06:56pm - 4986 days | #5 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
In their defense. There was the all important coverage of Obama's birth certificate finaly being made available to the public which had to be reported and talked about for a many days. No offense to any American members but I as an outsider sometime think the US media is owned and operated by complete fucked up retards. What passes for news media in the US is hard to understand. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 04-29-11 08:03pm - 4986 days | #6 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Hey! NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE! I doubt very much that any American members here identify with our media or assume it to be some kind of extension of our own selves. The media might say otherwise, but ... A few years ago I came up with a pet name for the American media: "The Bullshit Industry." I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 04-30-11 10:59am - 4985 days | #7 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The sad part is that, not so long ago, it was amazing. I used to watch Amercian news all the time. I'm going back to the days of Peter Jennings. There was genuine interest is reporting the news and not creating it. Today it's not whether you reported something correctly but that you did it first. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 04-30-11 11:12am - 4985 days | #8 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
I much prefer to watch "The Good Wife" to get my soap for the week. The news media should stay out of it. If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 05-01-11 03:36pm - 4984 days | #9 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
I'd like to also add my enthusesiatic appreciation to our Danish friend, for his heart-rendering concern for those of us who're effected by these recent, powerful and devastating storms. For someone that far away to convey the magnitude of compassion Denner is demonstrating here, simply speaks volumes for him, his country, and his compatriots. I'm on the East coast, and although we're close enough to our Inland neighbors to feel some minor effects of these horrible storms, our real nemesis are hurricanes -- which casts a veil of nervous awareness during the late summer months of every year. I've lived through a number of them here in my lifetime, all varying in degrees of intensity, and nothing I could say would discribe the fear of the distructive force that they bring. | |
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| 05-01-11 03:43pm - 4984 days | #10 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
With all due respect to American midwesterner Jim Lehrer, and I do respect him a lot, the heyday WAS when Peter Jennings was reporting and anchoring. And Robin MacNeil was on the PBS News Hour (the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour as it was then called). Well, I can see the problem! Not enough Canadians doing the Yank news coverage! Time to come back, eh? I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 05-01-11 06:41pm - 4984 days | #11 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
There are still many Canadians in US media but I'm affraid they have chosen to go over to the dark side of journalism and they are indistinguishable from American newscatsers. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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