TPG
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:07 PM |
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New Zealand Earthquake.
Okayyyyy.Now, I must state up front that I have an interest in NZ.
So.Why,except for oil (That can't be the only reason..) does Libya(Killed a police officer in London .Homed the Lockerbie bomber) get all the
news coverage when a country that carries OUR flag as part of its own,after a major disaster gets second fiddle in news coverage?
Discuss...
[Edited on 23/2/11 by TPG]
..Which was nice..
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scootz
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:15 PM |
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Whilst the loss of life, injury and damage in NZ is terribly sad, it's occurrence is not going to have much of an impact on the world.
What's happening in the north of Africa and the Middle East will...
It's Evolution Baby!
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TPG
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:26 PM |
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That would be why the latest exploits of the Popstar/Bigbrother/Britains got wanna be's get front page coverage when in vogue then? The point is
where are our press going now days.Who decides what's covered or reported?Think of the countryside march,or the current fuel protests.Proper
mislead eh?
[Edited on 23/2/11 by TPG]
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scootz
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:28 PM |
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?
It's Evolution Baby!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:31 PM |
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Christchurch is an immense tragedy the size of which is only now beginning to sink home, the fact that NZ is literally at the other side of the
world 36 hours away by airline means that the big broadcasters cannot instantly get their own reporters out to a city that is normally so civilised
and stable that it is a news backwater.
An added difficulty is that the news media had pre-positioned most of its foreign correspondents across the Arab world ready to cover what is a very
rapidly changing and potentially explosive political situation.
The Libya situation and what happens in the rest of the Arab world has major implication for the stability of the whole northern hemisphere and the
safety of every individual in every civilised country.
[Edited on 23/2/11 by britishtrident]
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:37 PM |
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Plus I feel that natural disasters always come second fiddle to man made ones. Even when it shouldnt.
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dave
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:42 PM |
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I have a friend on holiday in New Zealand (christchurch) so the news was important to me, happily she is ok. I think its a case of if it bleeds it
leads the news of the earthquake will soon vinish from our screens but the middle east will go on. After Libya who's next?
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norfolkluego
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:58 PM |
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And to be fair the NZ earthquake hasn't exactly been ignored by the press and TV (rightly so), it's just that there are two major news
stories running at the same time.
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plentywahalla
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 10:58 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by TPG
That would be why the latest exploits of the Popstar/Bigbrother/Britains got wanna be's get front page coverage when in vogue then? The point is
where are our press going now days.Who decides what's covered or reported?Think of the countryside march,or the current fuel protests.Proper
mislead eh?
[Edited on 23/2/11 by TPG]
???? ...... do you use the same scriptwriter as Gaddaffi ?
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TPG
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 11:27 PM |
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To clear up.What I am very disappointed at is the whole British Press attitude to events and the order in which they are reported.Trouble in other
countries has always been there.Somalia for an 'off.The food problems in the rest of Africa.All really really bad.But what we get is "So
and so from the latest reality TV show has broken a nail..",and this is then followed by a story of a child fighting cancer.....we really do
have our priorities wrong now days
With regards to my opening point.As said by someone.The events in Liyba will have a direct,large knock on to the rest of the world. But where has our
press/new reporting compassion gone? In the un westernised world bad things have happened and will continue to do so (Be they wrong or right in our
eyes) but have,by and large gone unreported.
Should of put RANT in front of the first post?
..Which was nice..
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Peteff
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 12:03 AM |
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Read the BBC site if you want the news in the order you want to see it, it's a day old when the newspapers get to print it. I can't really
see the point of your "Rant" I think it's just reporting the Libya situation so we can gloat that Gadaffi is not having the best
time of it.
yours, Pete
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hughpinder
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 08:13 AM |
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Dont read the tabloids - you wont be told about all the celebrity crap then....
Regards
Hugh
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plentywahalla
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 08:29 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by hughpinder
Dont read the tabloids - you wont be told about all the celebrity crap then....
Regards
Hugh
Exactly right! ... Newspapers print what 'their' readers want to read about. Just like the woman in front of me in the queue in Tesco
last night. Five different Hello/Chat/OK type mags! If the antics of vacuous siliconed wannabees is what she want to read about, then let her. She
probably thinks Lybia are the bits she sits on!
Personally I didn't know that someone has broken a fingernail. My only sources of news are BBC News at 10 and the Sunday Times and they
didn't cover it!
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vorn
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 09:31 AM |
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It's been a shitter of a few days here.
I'm lucky to have no friends or family caught up in it , as they don't work in the city center .
We are luck to be living on the south side of Christchurch and seem to of got away lightly .
All my thoughts go out to the family's with members missing .
Vaughan
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TimC
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 10:02 AM |
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Vorn,
I think it's so sad. My girlfriend and I were there in December. Of all the places we visited on our travels (3 months, 6 countries,)
Christchurch was the one place that we thought, "Yep, I'd be quite happy here."
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vorn
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 10:19 AM |
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Hi Tim
So you saw the mess from the September 4th quake ??
It's bloody crazy , If I had not seen the news I would not know it was so bad , we only had stuff fall from shelves and 7km down the road
(that's how far from town we are !!! ) chaos , death and destruction !!!!
Still hard to believe
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TimC
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 10:54 AM |
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We did, but were amazed at how succesful the clean-up had been. It almost looked like certain areas were just being redeveloped/regenerated. We were
there for a couple of days - saw the bicycle road racing and the Santa parade (although we missed most of it because we were wandering around the
beautiful botanic gardens.)
It is absolutely shocking. Over here, the numbers of missing being quoted are 200 + foreign nationals and they think there might be 50-60
Thai/Chinese/Japanese folk trapped under a collapsed english school.
As you say, unbelievable.
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adithorp
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| posted on 24/2/11 at 12:19 PM |
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I've got a friend who emigrated out there and his Mum is visiting him. I spent as much time at there house as a kid as I did at home. I've
had no answer to e-mails and his phone number just gets a recorded message "number not known".
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TimC
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| posted on 25/2/11 at 01:24 PM |
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Sh** Adi.
I hope you get news soon.
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adithorp
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| posted on 26/2/11 at 09:58 PM |
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Just like to say a massive thanks to Vorn. He went "above and beyond" to try and check up on my mate, even going around to the last
address I had for him and knocked on the door to see if they knew were he was now.
A couple of things made it difficult at this end. That it's school holidays and several people I could check the contact details with are away
and either, I can't get in touch with them or they don't have the details with them.
Anyway I did a bit of internet digging today and came up with a work e-mail for him and got an out of office reply that had a mobile number on it.
Turns out they're fine and the house OK, but they're staying at a friends where the aftershocks aren't as bad.
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adithorp
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 12:49 PM |
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Turns out that my mates wife was on the 4th floor of a building on the same block as the TV building thats been demolished. She had to walk past it to
get to the emergency assembly point for her building. Scary stuff. My mate on the other hand was away in Wellington and missed it all.
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