Is it me? Or is the News just sheer Hollywood these days

Hyperion

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• Oct 9, 2014

• #1

Months ago, Russia were the new evil of the world, now, I have heard **** all since Ebola and Isis.

What? Are they not news worthy now?

It's an odd thing. International news priority based on the latest scare mongering machine that is 21st century news media.

It seems our modern leaders are led by morons.

Ebola has been dealt with too casually
Russian aggression is now somehow irrelevant
Isis advances close to Turkey are now being dealt with whatever may seem popular.

Israel aggression against Palestine? That's pretty much a non story now it seems

 

mr sheen

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• Oct 10, 2014

• #2

All a bit 1984

 

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ArcticBlue

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Sussex Inlander

• Oct 10, 2014

• #3

This 4 part BBC documentary is worth watching. Part 1 below.

http://vimeo.com/84414208

 

easynow

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jakarta

• Oct 10, 2014

• #4

Because only 'scary' news sells. I refrain from watching/reading news for 4 or 5 days of the week. If there's something really important happening I am soon informed about it by word of mouth or whatever. I really don't give a toss if some crackhead guy killed his crackhead girlfriend. It's entirely pointless to know about it. Just read the comments below any online news article. It's just full of people that are addicted to reacting to mostly bs sensationalist news. Just conditioning them to be miserable farts because they have all these ' reasons' to be unhappy.

 

The Antikythera Mechanism

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• Oct 10, 2014

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Whatever happened to Bird Flu? That was supposed to wipe us all out.

 

supaseagull

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The United Kingdom of Mile Oak

• Oct 10, 2014

• #6

The news only tells us what the ruling elite want us to hear!

 

Baldseagull

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Crawley

• Oct 10, 2014

• #7

The Antikythera Mechanism said:

Whatever happened to Bird Flu? That was supposed to wipe us all out.

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It's still out there. A deadly flu epidemic will occur at some point, it will kill millions worldwide, but not this week.

 

Baldseagull

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Crawley

• Oct 10, 2014

• #8

Hyperion said:

Months ago, Russia were the new evil of the world, now, I have heard **** all since Ebola and Isis.

What? Are they not news worthy now?

It's an odd thing. International news priority based on the latest scare mongering machine that is 21st century news media.

It seems our modern leaders are led by morons.

Ebola has been dealt with too casually
Russian aggression is now somehow irrelevant
Isis advances close to Turkey are now being dealt with whatever may seem popular.

Israel aggression against Palestine? That's pretty much a non story now it seems

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Israel and Palestine have calmed down a bit, Russia has backed off a bit after Ukraine backed off the separatists a bit.
People cutting the heads off of British Hostages and posting the videos online, Parliament voting to use military action against that group and the likelihood that we will soon see coffins of servicemen being flown back from Iraq again is always going to trump the news that things are calming down a bit elsewhere.
However, George Clooney getting married in Venice was on the main news the other night, that is Hello magazine shit not News.

 

hans kraay fan club

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Chandlers Ford

• Oct 10, 2014

• #9

easynow said:

Because only 'scary' news sells. I refrain from watching/reading news for 4 or 5 days of the week. If there's something really important happening I am soon informed about it by word of mouth or whatever. I really don't give a toss if some crackhead guy killed his crackhead girlfriend. It's entirely pointless to know about it. Just read the comments below any online news article. It's just full of people that are addicted to reacting to mostly bs sensationalist news. Just conditioning them to be miserable farts because they have all these ' reasons' to be unhappy.

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There's a lot of truth in this. Important to keep abreast of what is going on in the world, but not good for the soul to wallow in it all. The papers have become horribly miserable - dealing solely with bad news and ridiculous weather/ health scare-mongering. Peas give you cancer, etc. It's definitely good for the soul to keep away from it all for a few days at a time.

James nailed it;

 

PILTDOWN MAN

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Hurst Green

• Oct 10, 2014

• #10

Baldseagull said:

It's still out there. A deadly flu epidemic will occur at some point, it will kill millions worldwide, but not this week.

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Or the flesh eating disease