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Originally posted by tubularbills i'm totally not trying to start a debate here or anything, but..... i hear about car-bombings in iraq a lot [and how many of iraqis [i guess, plus americans or other culturs]] die. really tho, its just because we're such a sensationalist society. i mean, the same media went nuts over columbine and stuff like that. it's the "hot story" right now because it hasn't happened in awhile. if the same thing happened on a monthly basis, it would just be on your local evening news.

you mean bombings in iraq.. they happen almost every day... maybe im exagerating but @ leats 3 times a week... nothing that big has happened in a while yes, but poeple die everyday over there.....

both situations are bad, here with what just happened and what has been happening in iraq for the past years. imagine what just happened here, everyday.... just to put things in perspective

now i know they are different settings... but i was just trying to make a point in class........

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On OOKA-OOKA ME NACHOS ME PRESS KEYS ON COMPUTER GOOD

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Originally posted by nchs09 you mean bombings in iraq.. they happen almost every day... maybe im exagerating but @ leats 3 times a week... nothing that big has happened in a while yes, but poeple die everyday over there..... both situations are bad, here with what just happened and what has been happening in iraq for the past years. imagine what just happened here, everyday.... just to put things in perspective now i know they are different settings... but i was just trying to make a point in class........

its a crazy world we live in.

the thing i hate most about the VT coverage is the fact that theyre giving that psycho exactly what he wanted- attention

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Originally posted by nchs09 nothing that big has happened in a while yes

Up to 200 killed in Baghdad bombs

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Up to 200 killed in Baghdad bombs

ya i ment before the big bombing they just had... i thought it was 130something, not 200, but the point was made. that is what i was talking about.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On OOKA-OOKA ME NACHOS ME PRESS KEYS ON COMPUTER GOOD

it all sums up to...

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"I think the scientific and the artistic spirit have something in common. The scientist wants not only to learn the facts, but to understand how they cohere, fit together and make a whole. He even uses criteria such as beauty and symmetry to help decide which theory he wants.

The scientist cannot capture the whole cosmos in thought. In his mind he makes a kind of microcosm, which we see as an analogue of the cosmos. In this way we try to get a feeling for the whole. The artist, I suppose, gets a feeling for the whole some other way.”

David Bohm in “Art, Dialogue and the Implicate Order”, published in On Creativity RC (Routledge Classics)

The same thing that I think about the media in general:

Not much.

whats that radio thing mario?

I also like how there is so much shit going on in the world, but when a blonde american girl gets kidnapped or some other story that has nothing to do with anything but grabs people's interests because it's played out like a soap opera, the media is all over it like flies on shit.

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Originally posted by OurManFlint I also like how there is so much shit going on in the world, but when a blonde american girl gets kidnapped or some other story that has nothing to do with anything but grabs people's interests because it's played out like a soap opera, the media is all over it like flies on shit.

Mm-hmm. If there's one positive thing that could come from this media coverage is that it will cause people to forget about the whole bullshit Anna Nicole tripe.

on & on & on & on & on...

with so many shootings & gun related deaths in the US, why doesn't someone crack & go into a TV studio & start capping media executives and paparazzi???

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