Erm, how comes I have been informed a lot about these situations? Maybe instead of you CHOOSING to only look at the headlines on a newspaper why not watch or read the newspaper and inform yourself? The information is there to be read. All of these stories were covered in the 6 o'clock news. One woman who was blown to poop in the boston bombings had about 3 minutes from her funeral aired.
Terrorism is a huge issue, so therefore it is going to be something that makes the headlines. Terrorism causes terror, people get scared, and people want to know what is happening to the people responsible.
The war in Iraq has been going on for years and people know that people die. When the war first started what was headlining all the time? The iraq war.
Ive seen quite a lot about the earthquake in china. Have you just poked your head out of a hole or something? Seriously?
The fertilizer plant I have also seen a lot in the news.
If I were you I would sit and watch the 24hour BBC News channel.
I will agree that I could of made better choices for my initial argument, but the fact that they are running the same freaking story repeatedly just to increase their profits seems immoral. The media makes you believe that to show sympathy and remorse for the lives lost you have to follow this story every day, making sure that this man gets what he deserves. Logically speaking, that is the WORST thing to do. By following this story you are just making what they did a success, they aren't called TERRORISTS for nothing.
My point in making this thread is to show that news and the media conglomerates running it (Comcast, News Corporation, Walt Disney, Viacom, and Time Warner) have much more power than what the average person realizes at face value.
Like it or not, news and media surrounding it is a commercial service, they have fiscal budget just like every other company out there, but there is one huge exception: News has power. Without news people are not only severed from the rest of the world, but are left with limited information on events that could drastically affect them in the future. Why in the world are we letting a lifeline to modern day society be in the hands of for-profit companies, and more importantly, why is such an important information source controlled by only 5 entities. Then you get to the idea that our "trusted" source of information faces no repercussions for lying or spreading faulty/ incomplete information. I do not understand this in the slightest.
I am not trying to say that the Boston Bombing was not as bad as it was.... the fact that lives were lost and they will never be returned is horrible. I am however saying that focusing on a single event is just as naive as not following anything at all. The media wants you to be biased, seeing that emotion is a basic hook of any entertainment source.
As for a news source, I listen to public radio and watch non-profit news sources. I will never trust a news agency that looks at the almighty dollar as more important than the people providing that dollar.
P.S.: I have not heard anyone in my workplace (or my town for that matter) talk about any other issue last week other than that of the Bombing. Just because you may search for news does not mean everyone else does. Most people do not "poke [their] head out of a hole", and thus the most popular story gets the full focus of everyone's attention. The news makes things more important by showing it more, regardless of how it affects the average person. Headlines don't matter to me, but they sure as hell matter to the general public.
