Originally posted by DJ RANN
Typo, and you're right, it doesn't. If it wasn't for BBC america and PBS, it never existed here in the US.
yeah initially i wondered whether i'd missed an extra 200 people by virtue of not paying enough attention :/
i agree that these incidents deserve more coverage, but i don't necessarily "blame" people for being more caught up in an event due to greater media (especially social media) saturation. there's just a huge inequity with respect to the level of media noise that emanates from a large western society compared to a developing nation. this is why 911 will remain the premier terrorist incident of our lifetime even if worse incidents occur- the power of moving pictures.
mass media perpetuates the status quo illustrated in paris v beirut, but are at the same time victims of it. as you note, asides from non profit outlets, lebanon clearly wasn't perceived to be of much interest to americans, and who's going to run stories they don't think will bring in the readers/viewers? doesn't make it right of course, but business is business.
soulstar606
Serial Killer
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If it wasn't for BBC
DJ RANN
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
yeah initially i wondered whether i'd missed an extra 200 people by virtue of not paying enough attention :/
i agree that these incidents deserve more coverage, but i don't necessarily "blame" people for being more caught up in an event due to greater media (especially social media) saturation. there's just a huge inequity with respect to the level of media noise that emanates from a large western society compared to a developing nation. this is why 911 will remain the premier terrorist incident of our lifetime even if worse incidents occur- the power of moving pictures.
mass media perpetuates the status quo illustrated in paris v beirut, but are at the same time victims of it. as you note, asides from non profit outlets, lebanon clearly wasn't perceived to be of much interest to americans, and who's going to run stories they don't think will bring in the readers/viewers? doesn't make it right of course, but business is business.
Valid points but I actually blame the journalism industry as a whole; I mean it's not like (literally) 100 other channels aren;t all using that same crappy iphone shot of the shootings and all reporting the same thing at the same time. You could not switch on a news channel without them all reporting the same thing at the same time, on repea
CNN are the worst these days - they literally put people on air who have nothing to say,
My problem is that it's pandering product to masses, not doing actual news reporting.
I do get though that most people here in the USA think Lebanon is a small state within DurkadurkaStan, rather than it being the "Switzerland of the Middle East" like the rest of the world knows it as.
Back on topic, it came out that one of the gunmen was stopped in a car on Saturday evening with two other men as they crossed the border to belgium. The car was a hire car and hadn't yet been flagged so they were let through.
DJ RANN
....and now the Holland vs Germany match has been cancelled and evacuated following "concrete evidence that an explosive device was going to be let off".
Big Worm
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
Valid points but I actually blame the journalism industry as a whole; I mean it's not like (literally) 100 other channels aren;t all using that same crappy iphone shot of the shootings and all reporting the same thing at the same time. You could not switch on a news channel without them all reporting the same thing at the same time, on repea
CNN are the worst these days - they literally put people on air who have nothing to say,
My problem is that it's pandering product to masses, not doing actual news reporting.
I do get though that most people here in the USA think Lebanon is a small state within DurkadurkaStan, rather than it being the "Switzerland of the Middle East" like the rest of the world knows it as.
Back on topic, it came out that one of the gunmen was stopped in a car on Saturday evening with two other men as they crossed the border to belgium. The car was a hire car and hadn't yet been flagged so they were let through.
Same thing happened with the Charlie Hebdo attacks -- Boko Haram slaughter nearly 2,000 people and there was zero coverage of it over here.
Originally posted by Big Worm
Same thing happened with the Charlie Hebdo attacks -- Boko Haram slaughter nearly 2,000 people and there was zero coverage of it over here.
Yeah, and I'm the last person to excuse it but it's not quite the same thing; Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon are pretty war torn countries and sadly there's conflict exhaustion for stories in africa.
Lebanon, even though most people think it's part of the axis of evil, hasn't had a conflict since 2006 (and that was all of 34 days) and before that, it was 1982. Not really a warlord infected, poverty stricken dictatorship like certain African states affected by Boko Haram and the ilk.
AmberLea
I don't understand how that reptile Obama wants to house the Syrian refugees when it's been proven that's how one of the terrorists got into Paris.:conf:
I remember reading about Sharia No-Go zones in France and thought it was some kind of pulp fiction. Do these areas really exist?
TranceElevation
2:19 he raises some good points.
TranceElevation
Guys, I was never a conspiracy theorist and I always derided and looked with pity towards these people, BUT COME ON....
