It is unfortunate of Cory Lidle accident, but I just don't see how this makes "news". It also makes the case why we don't have flying cars. The average person is incompetent.
More people die every year from bee stings than shark attacks, yet it's a tough sell for the networks to get you amped-up about a bee sting, so they feed us fear...
Plane crash's...MUCH more people die every year on America's hwy's due to alcohol(roughly 120,000 since 9/11), but we can't get "excited" about people who look like us, drink too much, and kill us driving drunk.
Think we as Americans have our priorities mixed-up?
2006-10-12 10:01:20 · 4 answers · asked by LovePinkPuffies 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Shark attacks make news BECAUSE they are unusual.
And when a plane crashes into a high-rise building in New York City -- no matter who is in it -- it's news. Especially after 9/11 when planes crashed into two high rises.
It's more news if someone killed in the crash is a celebrity, like a professional baseball player.
BTW: It was the second time a New York Yankees player has been killed in a private airplane crash. The first was catcher Thurman Munson, in 1979.
2006-10-12 10:07:31 · answer #1 · answered by johntadams3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Point taken, but whenever a plane crashes into a Manhattan skyscraper, no matter how small the plane, it's going to FREAK PEOPLE OUT...what don't you get about that?
I do agree with you about the "news"...it's more like "Entertainment Tonight" than actual news these days...I don't think we Americans are to blame for that though. Most people I know are smart enough to know when they are being spoon-fed a bunch of fear and sensationalism, in lieu of actual news. It's those that either buy any b.s. they hear, or only hear what they want to hear that concern me.
Yes, we Americans do have our priorities mixed-up, we should be out on the street demonstrating, boycotting, protesting and creating general chaos (non-violently of course), in an attempt to reinstate the BILL OF RIGHTS, which I think has only 1 right left on it that hasn't been trampled on like pearls before swine...check it out!
2006-10-12 10:28:44 · answer #2 · answered by josephine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. Especially when it comes to our celebrity worship. If Angela Jolie farted on camera it would make the news.
2006-10-12 10:05:42 · answer #3 · answered by Chris D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just cant make sense out of this question
2006-10-12 19:29:35 · answer #4 · answered by acid tongue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋