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Amy needs to rant!
Posted 8th May 2008 by Amy Vidaic
I need to whinge and whinge I will! The media make me sick to my stomach. Hopefully most of you are aware that in excess of 25 000 people have been killed (more than half of this amount are said to be children) by a horrendous cyclone in Burma. Incidentally, the day this story broke, Grant Hackett's 'pot belly' story also emerged. When deciding upon what story to put on the front page of most Newspapers - The Hackett saga won.1. Grant doesn't have a gut you imbeciles. If you knew anything about sport and training, you'd know that your stomach can inflate from carb overload (i.e. the poor guy needs energy!).
2. 25 000 + people have died!! In excess of thousands upon thousands are left homeless, starving and in extreme despair over losing family and friends - but the people of Australia would rather criticise Hackett and his 'gut' (or, so the newspaper editor's believe)
3. If a bus blows up on the street in Afghanistan and kills 55 people, it'll barely receive a five line article on page 18 in the newspaper. But if a bus was blown up in down-town Sydney or London or New York, it would make front page for 10 days in a row and we'd be forced to relive every gruesome detail of the event for the next five years to come!
4. The last point I would like to make is... why is it, that when going to check the news on a particular news site the other day - the headlining homepage story read something along the lines of ' Corey causes a stir in the BB house'?!!
Again, 25 000 + people have died in Burma, but our media is clearly more interested in Corey, the party-boy-brat, who's been glorified by being put into a house full of dead-set drop kicks.
I am so angry at the world today - but hey, at least I got it off my chest!
Thoughts?
Readers Comments
h - 9th May 2008, 12:05 PM
amen
connie - 9th May 2008, 04:05 PM
I couldn't agree more. It's sickening to think where media priorities can lie
jj - 9th May 2008, 05:05 PM
Corey's glory will be short lived. Unfortunately we're stuck with Big Bogan for another 3 months. I would gladly sacrifice 'reality' TV production funds for foreign aid.
nic - 13th May 2008, 12:05 PM
i concur!!! it's most saddening
kwiddle - 13th May 2008, 05:05 PM
I completely agree with you Amy! Commercial TV stations are the worst! I refuse to watch Today Tonight or A Current Affair. Their reports are pathetic and trash the minds of viewers. I actually had to explain to a girl at work the other day about whats ha
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