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- paraselene0
sorry to bump this and sorry to drag it onto topic, but there's just one small point i'd like to make.
the article in question is from an english-language website in an english-speaking country. i imagine that this tragedy in baghdad has accrued much more arabic press than anglophone press.
whether or not it is more tragic / equally as tragic / less tragic than loss of life elsewhere in the world is a ridiculous point to argue.
i'm willing to be wrong about the following, but i would imagine that if your main news source is an anglophone website, then the chances are much greater that your great aunt who has an existential crisis everytime the teapot whistles, much less when the worst storm in living memory hits the only home she's ever known, or the first boy you ever kissed or the girlfriend from uni with whom you hitchhiked through guatemala live in new orleans. so perhaps you're more interested in that particular world tragedy of all the tragedies taking place around the planet at any given time (take your pick).
and perhaps you've not heard from these people for a number of days and you're worried and so you like to check the news more regularly than you normally would do because any little new bit of information might be of help/solace to you.
maybe the fact that you're reading your news from an anglophone website doesn't up the chances of that at all, but i reckon it ups the chances of that being the case for one of your lovers / coworkers / internet friends.
so maybe audience has something to do with it. just a smidge.
it's more about supply and demand than the magnitude of the devastation.
- ********0
Um... wasn't there something about an overflowing toilet in New Oleans?
determinedmoth
(Aug 31 05, 04:50)Sorry to pick your post out of the bunch, but it was at the top of the thread.
That post is in really poor taste considering half of New Orleans is underwater right now.
I can not wait until Karma slaps you in the face.
- pascii0
it's tragic. but i understand moth.
- paraselene0
read the thread first, garrett. we've gone through it already.
- ********0
I'm in the process of reading it.
And 'beating a dead horse' is the new Newstoday motto I hear para.
- E__________0
good point parsalene. you have to go through all the bs to read some good posts here these days.
- paraselene0
Western media might be biased but they're surely gonna report home news first.......
determinedmoth
(Aug 31 05, 05:17)that's basically all i wos sayin'.
- ********0
That post is in really poor taste considering half of New Orleans is underwater right now.
I can not wait until Karma slaps you in the face.
garettwest
(Aug 31 05, 07:33)It might well be, and I did say sorry, and I was trying to say something important. The fact that you of all people is picking me up on poor taste though is perplexing. You're hardly the PC king yourself.
- moveinspace0
we just all woke up in a feisty mood this morning. It's all over.
*tips glassdamn I posted in the thread again.
- paraselene0
we just all woke up in a feisty mood this morning. It's all over.
*tips glassdamn I posted in the thread again.
moveinspace
(Aug 31 05, 07:54)roger and ditto that.
*pours a round of g+t
- ********0
Please. First off I'm not going to read all 40+ posts then come back one by one and respond. I read a few and responded. We've all done it.
And PC wise?... puh lease. That's a stretch.
- ********0
Garett. Sorry. But.
FUCK OFF.
- ********0
skt you Jevad wanna be, that was all you could come up with?
Fuck you then I'm taking my kick ball and going home, I don't want to play on the playground with you kids anymore.
- paraselene0
Fuck you then I'm taking my kick ball and going home, I don't want to play on the playground with you kids anymore.
garettwest
(Aug 31 05, 08:04)see. everyone knows we don't play well with others. christ, we can barely play with ourselves.
:l
- moveinspace0
I lied. I have dual-citizenship. :)
- Bio0
everyone is so hateful.
stampedes, tsunamis, hurricanes, endless wars, dead/dying people, homeless people, pain pain pain.
i manage to find a computer in this town with internet . . . and i log on to this. . .
my insides are so tired and i am trying hard not to cry.
- moveinspace0
like I said before it's all over. The points have been made and we all have now started drinking.
- pascii0
ola bio. seems like we all have a bad day