Comments for Phenomenon http://dsmenon.wordpress.com Watch this space for news, views, opinion and reaction Thu, 15 May 2008 09:21:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on A matter of life and death by purple07prose http://dsmenon.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/a-matter-of-life-and-death/#comment-4 purple07prose Thu, 15 May 2008 09:21:46 +0000 http://dsmenon.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-4 Your statement "The media has a duty and responsibility to place more emphasis on devastating events like natural disasters" is completely true. Especially as environmental problems are only going to get worse. I dont understand how a broadsheet newspaper can relegate news like this. you said "What’s even more disappointing is that the Times printed a massive picture of housing minister Caroline Flint, alongside a miniscule picture of a suffering Chinese child." How many people actually know who Caroline Flint is? Does is say it all that this paper has put money above human suffering? Your statement “The media has a duty and responsibility to place more emphasis on devastating events like natural disasters” is completely true. Especially as environmental problems are only going to get worse. I dont understand how a broadsheet newspaper can relegate news like this.

you said “What’s even more disappointing is that the Times printed a massive picture of housing minister Caroline Flint, alongside a miniscule picture of a suffering Chinese child.” How many people actually know who Caroline Flint is?

Does is say it all that this paper has put money above human suffering?

]]> Comment on Is it safe to leave your house? by babbit http://dsmenon.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/is-it-safe-to-leave-your-house/#comment-2 babbit Thu, 15 May 2008 00:33:19 +0000 http://dsmenon.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-2 I have to agree that fear mongering is out of control. Of course it is important to highlight the dangers of gun crime, not only as an appeal for witnesses to such crimes, but also as a way of discouraging people from using guns. However, as with most bad news stories, the amount of incidents that have actually happened compared with the amount the public believe have happened is wildly varying. But is that not just the nature of the news? Bad news stories get a lot of coverage. As such, the public believe the problem is bigger than it is. If we were to take this fear mongering literally then: We are currently living in a melting earth that is too hot and will give us cancer that will contribute to the cancer we will get anyway from mobile phones that we can use to call our impoverished pensioner parents when we are kidnapped by one of the many paedophiles or gun-wielding gang members waiting around every corner. I'm not saying these issues aren't very real, but they are certainly blown out of proportion. I have to agree that fear mongering is out of control. Of course it is important to highlight the dangers of gun crime, not only as an appeal for witnesses to such crimes, but also as a way of discouraging people from using guns.

However, as with most bad news stories, the amount of incidents that have actually happened compared with the amount the public believe have happened is wildly varying.

But is that not just the nature of the news? Bad news stories get a lot of coverage. As such, the public believe the problem is bigger than it is.

If we were to take this fear mongering literally then: We are currently living in a melting earth that is too hot and will give us cancer that will contribute to the cancer we will get anyway from mobile phones that we can use to call our impoverished pensioner parents when we are kidnapped by one of the many paedophiles or gun-wielding gang members waiting around every corner.

I’m not saying these issues aren’t very real, but they are certainly blown out of proportion.

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