RE: [Leica] Millimeters and Milliseconds

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Gee, and here I thought it was (grossly over)played not because there were
no stories about humans, but because whales seem to be THE "in" creature and
tug a people's heart strings, and therefore, right or wrong, are of enormous
interest to television viewers.

B. D.

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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Allan
Wafkowski
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:01 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Millimeters and Milliseconds


There are no newsless days. If nothing big happens, something small will
be played up big. Recently, here in the east cost of the U.S., we have
been inundated with stories about whales who swam into shallow water,
floundered, and would not allow themselves to be saved and perished.
Apparently it played well as an human interest story because there were
no humans of interest to write about those days.

Allan


Rob Appleby wrote:
> When "news" becomes a commodity, then its appeal to the consumer is the
> overriding citerion of acceptability - and this means that confirmation
> is
> favoured over information and insight. Who wants to know what really
> goes on
> in the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber, for instance? Who's
> interested
> in his reasons (in terms of marketing "news" for the highest possible
> viewer
> ratings)? Virtually no-one - we need to be confirmed in our belief that
> this
> is someone we can safely despise for his beliefs and actions. He's
> just a
> token, and to treat him as anything else is to risk losing market share.

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