Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do I ever agree. People often act toward animals with maudlin notions without having any understanding of the facts. And feel damn good about themselves for doing it. Allan Jeffery Smith wrote: > For all we know, the whales are sick and are trying to avoid drowning. > Then people pull them out to sea so they can drown. Some things in > nature are best left alone. Could also be an evolutionary adaptation to > prevent communicable disease from infecting healthy whales. > >> 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. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html