Some fair points, Grant, and the media have a helluva lot to answer for, but I apologise if I can't join you in defending Barnaby's comments. KT ****************************************** The ABXF Site (Absolutely X-Files) http://www.greenbank.force9.co.uk/ E-MAIL: anthony@greenbank.force9.net ****************************************** ---------- > From: Grant Watson <nzone@iinet.net.au> > To: Press Gang Mailing List <pressgang@yoyo.org> > Subject: Re: [pressgang] Princess Di > Date: 31 August 1997 23:50 > > At 02:13 PM 31/08/97 +0100, you wrote: > >And no, I didn't know about Algeria nd I think that is extremely upsetting > >and tragic - would you say 'OOH, I LIKE A GOOD MASS SLAUGHTER'??? > > No I don't expect he would. > What I think he was trying to point out is that although the death of > Princess Diana, her boyfriend and her driver is understandably very tragic, > the world media is acting like such a three-ringed circus over it that one > would think it was the most shockingly terrible event of the year. It's > cynical, highly dubious and exactly the sort of sordid media attention that > it now looks like may have caused her car to crash. > > And yet only two days ago 100 people were burned alive, beaten senseless > and hacked to death and the media didn't even give it a second glance. > That's about 25 times the human tragedy of this car crash in Paris. But > no one in that town in Algeria was a celebrity. None of them had opened > hospitals, had dinner with the President of the USA or had their marraige > televised to millions of viewers worldwide. > So as far as the media was concerned, it wasn't worth worrying about > because who on Earth is interested in a bunch of nobodies anyway? > > Now *that's* sick. > > Cheers! > Grant. > > > > > ___________nzone@iinet.net.au____________ > "And so we return and begin again..." > THE INVISIBLES #1 > -- > T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T > By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not > to the author of the message you're replying to. > To unsubscribe, mail "subscribe" to "pressgang-request@yoyo.org" -- T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not to the author of the message you're replying to. To unsubscribe, mail "subscribe" to "pressgang-request@yoyo.org" |