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Originally posted by Billabong It just goes to show you how badly peoples priorities lie. There are so many broken places in the world right now, that need help just as badly as the tsunami affected areas. Somehow i think that when a major disaster comes along the news people rub their hands with glee, like the evil people they are because they have hours and hours of footage to drag out and fill the tv screens with. I have no interest in watching repeated footage about people that have lost their families, yes its sad, but these things happen i.e pompeii. It makes me laugh that live aid happened in africa, and things are still bad there, yet there have been no concerts this year to help people over there.

Well, you know i agree with you on the priorities bit, and i will agree to a very limited degree regarding the media - from a corporate perspective (not MY perspective though!) natural disasters are VERY good for ratings. they are spectacular events in the literal sense, and they do make for good production. but coming from a newsroom myself, you have to know that there isn't one person in there who takes any pleasure in seeing thousands of people perish and suffer. a person develops a hard skin after a while, but we are all still human.