Is it just me or what?
2007-06-04 07:23:39 · 17 answers · asked by BrilliantPomegranate 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I thought the same thing this morning when i pulled up yahoo..and the first thing that showed up was how the mtv movie awards went last night..and whats in small print a little further down on the page with no pictures at all , (unlike the movie awards may i add) how some of our troops were killed today...its so sad how media and celeb hungry our country is.
2007-06-04 07:32:04 · answer #1 · answered by Mandy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not just Paris Hilton. Lebron James was asked to sign a petition about boycotting China at the Olympics because they are major financial trade partners with the Sudanese government, and he backed out stating that he "didn't know' enough about the situation. Wonder what planet he's been living on the past 3 years.
Now the NBA is touting this as the next coming of Michael Jordan versus the Spurs. We can't be the world's police, but I think we can get our points across financially by not buying certain labels and removing the Favorable Trade status from China. Hit them in the pockets, let's see if these assholes will listen when Nike sales plummet and Americans don't buy Made in China anymore.
2007-06-04 14:51:00 · answer #2 · answered by Tomo718 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well said. There's so much going on the world that goes unreported. I'm doing news values for A level media studies and it's terrible what gets left out of the news for something related to celebrities etc. However there is always a reason why things like Paris Hilton going to prison get on the news and that's purely down to public taste. They want to show what they perceive the audience finds interesting and although the crisis in Darfur is far more important than a rich person that gets paid for being rich, it's been going on for a while and until any new developments they are going to show other human interest stories that are more lightweight in our ever growing americanised and celebrity culture.
2007-06-04 14:31:51 · answer #3 · answered by Josh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For every question about Dafur in here. There's 40 questions about Paris Hilton in here. And you attack the news media?
2007-06-04 14:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by Mister Bald 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We know the plight in Dafur is bad, but do we need to hear it 24 hours a day? The news is supposed to cover everything, not just poverty issues. Mick
2007-06-04 16:14:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
last time the USA went to help starving people was Somolia...and we remember how welcomed we were then. Let someone else figure out what to do in DAFUR.
2007-06-04 14:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by Dick Richards 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I agree it's pathetic! Can't believe what the world's coming to!
2007-06-04 15:52:09 · answer #7 · answered by Aleeve 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Celebrity make news,not the crisis about people dying,who
care if people die. I care about people dying in Darfur !!
You should should care too.
2007-06-04 15:00:28 · answer #8 · answered by TAMPABAYLADY 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sick you are right. Makes one wonder at the humanity of Humanity or is it just this country.
2007-06-04 14:26:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
thats the media crap needs 2 think wats important and wats rrrrrrrrrr boggy not
2007-06-04 14:27:05 · answer #10 · answered by Tilly 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋