milking disaster media wise

timmeh said:
Do you think the same thing about people wearing poppies last week or black arm bands?
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Purchasing a poppy actually does something though, charity and all.

That doesn't mean people don't buy them to be fashionable whilst not giving a crap about the cause.
 
spoffle said:
Purchasing a poppy actually does something though, charity and all.

That doesn't mean people don't buy them to be fashionable whilst not giving a crap about the cause.
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I wonder how many people buy them every year and how many buy one then use it for the next however many years.

Anyway, back on topic. I had CNN on in the background the other day and they were interviewing a man and his son (who looked around 12yrs old), who were in the Bataclan on Friday, and she asked him "Have you seen any dead bodies before?". Who asks a 12yr old that? What was she expecting him to say?
 
Blackjack Davy said:
The one in Lebanon was the day before Paris in an ISIL attack and at least as many people died, but who is aware that it even happened?
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Everyone, because people won't stop going on about what an injustice it is. It was reported by all the mainstream news outlets at the time it happened anyway - only most people didn't read it then.

In reality the closer something is to home, the more interest in generates. This is pure human nature - I'm sure somebody died in a car accident in Australia today, but we've not heard about it. Likewise there will be things on your local news which are of interest because they are local but that the rest of us will have no idea about.

It's not because nobody cares.
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...ate-white-supremacy-a6736526.html#commentsDiv

Not sure if already posted, but this is one of the worst articles I have ever read... I even left the following comment:

I felt the need to register for this website to comment on how unduly cynical and needlessly patronising this article is. If someone happens to change their profile picture on a social media website to show a flag (as a gesture of sympathy following a terrorist attack) that isn't an indication, let alone a smoking-gun indication, of their level of care, nor a display of being fickle or shallow. Upholding white supremacy?! Give me a break...
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