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[gonzo21]

You know there's many things in this world I do not understand. I'm a reclusive mountain hermit, I don't really get the world at the best of times. But see the media's weird sick fetishistic fascination with air crashes? And the way they pore over every detail, and rush to bring people images of the wreckage

Comments

[mlknchz]

People are horrible. News people even more so.

[gonzo21]

Every now and then I see stuff about journalism in the 70s, like the Watergate journalists? They seemed to be genuinely good people trying to do something genuinely good for the benefit of their fellow people.

It maybe wasn't all like that. But, yeah. THey should never have let the mega corporations own all the news outlets.

[one_raido]

While I'm a bit of a newshound, I don't care to see the over coverage of things. Also as the weather gets nice outside, I'm not sitting in front of the tv.

[gonzo21]

I think they should go back to a one hour nightly news programme, instead of the 24 hour news channels. Focus on better quality, and forget this endless drive to fill the air time with fluff.

[benicek]

If those same people had been drowned making a refugee crossing by boat we'd hardly know about it.

[gonzo21]

Indeed not, no, and I'd wager you at least as many people died that day in refugee boats in the Med.

[wantedonvoyage]

Sad truth, in both cases. I follow these things out of technical interest/concern but I can't stomach the mainstream news; there are aviation geek channels where you can observe actual industry folks piecing together what actually happened, minus the political and the conspiracy theories.

[gonzo21]

One imagines at this point Egypt Air are only still operating thanks to state support.

[matrixmann]

Distraction from other things, I say.

Never heard of the effect of having a soccer world cup in your country taking place and meanwhile your parliament bringing a rise of the VAT through without anyone's resistance or even dismay?

[gonzo21]

It will be interesting what happens politically in Brazil when the Olympics start...

[benicek]

How could it be worse? An American and Russian backed death-squad military junta which has acted towards the Islamic president it overthrew in such a way that any terrorist campaign against Egypt can now be entirely justified as necessary.

[gonzo21]

People of Egypt, you can have democracy!

~people of Egypt vote for Islamic Brotherhood~

People of Egypt, welcome back to military dictatorship, as we start killing all of the Islamic Brotherhood you just voted for!