Rant

[stillbeing]

EDIT: Seems I'm not the only one who thinks along these lines. At least someone at The Age appears to be following reason - Read on here.I’m not sure why I’m posting now since this journal is now defunct (and I will be shutting down my Molly_Cule journal due to complete lack of interest), but anyway, there is just too much so deeply wrong with the

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[smegforbrains83]

so nice to hear somebody talking about the things i've been thinking

the statistics and experts that have been ranting in the Aged & Herald Scum are quite full of shit

blaming a sub-culture group like emos & goths as a high candidate for suicide or whatever else is the hot topic on Today (vomit) Tonight like smoking ice etc etc is bullshit (forgive my intellectual wording)

"jocks" & the so-called "popular" crowds are just as likely to use myspace (and they do) and to dabble in the common dangerous themes that teenagers have to deal with regardless of their social categorisation AND regardless of whether they are bubble wrapped by their parents or left to their own devices

the media, parents, teachers and "experts" love to place blame on everyone and everything but themselves. One week its those emos, the next its that rap music, then of course back to the classic of blaming Horror Movies. Just so ol' Berryl from next door can be quoted by the press saying "he/she was a quiet boy/girl, kept to him/herself mostly. But i think he/she watched those horror movie things. WAs bound to happen eventually. you could just tell he/she was a bad egg"

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[stillbeing]

A lot of those 'experts' should know better than to spruik their opinions anyway, only hours (or in some cases,, minutes) after news has broken. They have no idea of the full evidence in the case, so how dare they go up on camera or in print giving opinions like they know anything about these two girls? Just because they have a degree and a title with a bunch of fancy letters after their name doesn't mean they're bright enough to hold their tongues when they really can't know what they're talking about.

I think the classic example was watching Fox News during September 11 at uni (though I guess that statement just says it all, really). At one stage, one of their 'experts' they brought into the studio just 2 hours into the attacks stated that US intelligence placed Osama bin Laden meeting with Sadaam Hussein in Iraq the week before.

Perhaps these 'experts' have more an interest in shaping public opinion than actually being an expert in facts?