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OK, I'm watching the news and on the "previews" news theyre talking about a kid who got bit by a snake.

Um... doesnt this happen a lot? WHY IS THIS NEWS?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What pointless news items have you seen recently?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

And the stuff that I want to know about - such as the mysterious dead guy who fell/jumped/was pushed - are just never reported on at all!

This is why I read the Camden New Journal. It actually tells me about this sort of pointless stuff I'm interested in.

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You bring up an interesting point Kate. A lot of people live off news, yet we only know whats fed us. I just cant think about it like that, because it gets all 1984 and argh. Ive stopped watching standard TV news because often it is contradicted, or useless.

But whats the alternative? Hardcore research?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

this is more interesting than the SNAKEBITE TEENS report i saw last year

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Who has the time to do serious hardcore research? It's kinda scary when you think about it, that the television news is such slanted and biased pabulum - that you want to turn it off and ignore it, but that makes you ever more ill informed.

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

trayce are you still drinking?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It's *how* they report that gets me, something like Brussels *seems* opaque because TV only has 90 seconds for x-Europe conference and so you get the tabloidal 'Jacques hates Tony' but but no real reporting of exactly how much power unelected representatives are being given.

Also the amount of coverage given to, say, a train crash or sniper in US vs the total lack of anything on Chechnya (except for the really big blasts), Columbia, Kashmir...

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim - err.. maybe! ;P Just a cider ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

And black?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ew thats some weird UK goth thing, I'd never do that ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't let this thread die! Talk about bizarre local newspapers or something! Does anyone else get the Camden New Journal? It is the most gory and gruesome local paper ever! Most local papers are just about jumble sales and the only crimes are shed break-ins. We get murder and stabbings and dismemberment and mysterious half-naked persons lying dead in the middle of Southampton Row!

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

We get 'Man Bulldozes Own Pub' quite often.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Why would someone bulldoze their own pub? Or, in the case of Oxford, drive a whale through it?

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

On our local lunchtime news we got "French Market comes to Winchester".

This market comes to our town (not winchester, that's 60 miles away or so) without a mention at least twice a year...

The story was expanded with on-the-spot live relays on the evening version...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The publican was being given the high hat by his own bar staff, so attacked the joint with his tractor. 'Classy' barely covers it.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the "high hat"? I'm not up on your quaint rural euphemisms there.

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Rural? I was using 1920s Chicago talk! 'High hat' = not serving, snubbing, or otherwise gyping someone.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gyping"? Racist! You'll be talking about him Welshing, soon.

(Where I come from, the high hat is a kind of cymbal.)

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, I never used 'gyping' till I read a David Foster Wallace story in which this kid says that it's wrong to, and then... it was stuck in me.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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