Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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