Dave Grohl slammed Paris Hilton as a "lazy party ****" this week. That's what gets on the news usually, instead of Darfur in Africa, where there have been over 400,000 tragic, needless, genocide deaths ... and counting!
God said LOVE your neighbour, as much as yourself, AND even your enemy...but HATE SIN!!! Love Paris but do not imitate her bad behaviour, for God's sake!!!
A recent opinion article in the New York Times criticized death toll estimates for Darfur that we have quoted. The article misses a critical point in the debate over how many people have actually died.
These mortality estimates cannot be verified or updated because the Government of Sudan actively denies the international community (including diplomats, humanitarian workers, and epidemiology experts) real access to the Darfur region to count the ethic cleansing victims.
I blogged on this at...
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-ISngy3A9bqulHVeLd5G2JKpsN.kz7g--?cq=1&tag=ki-moon
2007-09-25 13:43:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
News is ratings oriented. So the only planes you will see have crashed, although airlines are safer than cars for safety, according to what I've heard.
This goes for racial profiling of Arabs, who only make the news if they're terrorists.
And the image of the black man as criminal, that white folks see daily on "action news"!
A black man is only on TV because he "offed" his beautiful white wife and an immocent "good samaratan" waiter, who just tried to return glasses she had left behind at his restaurant!
2007-09-25 13:52:55 · update #1
The rainy season which started in June, is just ending this week!
Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pledged to push for lasting peace in the Middle East, and an end to the conflict in Darfur in the coming year!
The country was left a war-torn wasteland after a horrific genocide devastated the nation mainly a dozen years ago, from April and June, 1994, when an astounding 800,000 were brutally murdered.
Save Darfur
http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes
The U.N. "GOE" compiled recommendations on Darfur this summer, and has been working with the government of Sudan to foster their implementation. Human Rights Watch urges that the Council look at a number of concrete actions which could contribute to immediate changes on the ground in Darfur.
Many are actions Sudan has said it is already taking.
Darfur genocide web site link ...
http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes
Darfur genocide link...
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/
2007-09-26 02:19:37 · update #2
Media should focus on Darfur and not on Paris.
2007-09-25 13:48:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definitely Darfur. Unfortunately most people seem to care more about Paris Hilton than what is going on in the world.
2007-09-25 21:20:10 · answer #2 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even if I wasn't working in TV News, I would easily say Darfur over Paris. But unfortunately, news about a ditzy blonde like Paris attracts viewers.
2007-09-26 09:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by LA Sports Fan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paris who? Of course, you are asking the people who reelected the President who advised Americans to go to the mall in response to the attacks of 9/11.
You can discuss for days if this is the chicken or the egg ... the media devotes space to Britney Hilton because that's all people will listen to, or the people know more about Brad Clooney than about Darfur because that is what the media feeds them.
Thank you for the poignant statement in your question. I hope more people read this question than the current buzz about Hannah Cyrus teenage crushes.
2007-09-25 20:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara E 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Capitalism says media should focus on what gets them the most viewers, and that's Paris Hilton currently. It's quite a shame. We can't do anything about Darfur if we can't remember that the situation goes on even if we don't notice it.
2007-09-25 22:53:37 · answer #5 · answered by emster491991 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about real news instead of a spin off of that Michael Jackson crap!!! Paris Hilton is not news She is a headache that just won't accept the fact she's a loser begging for attention.
2007-09-25 21:01:14 · answer #6 · answered by Williamstown 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Darfur, unfortunately a lot of Americans don't even know where Darfur is. :-))
2007-09-25 20:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by jorst 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who gives a crap about Darfur??What do they have to offer the US?
2007-09-25 21:46:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ha, clearly a trick question. the correct answer is that they should be focusing on sports to distract us from how pathetic our culture is becoming and shield us from knowing just how horrible we let our world become.
2007-10-03 04:26:21 · answer #9 · answered by lazyslacker013 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmmmm tough one.....Blonde hotty or dirty African crap hole.
I vote Paris
Who are you to say her behaivor is bad?
2007-09-25 20:50:44 · answer #10 · answered by Raj Faneen 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋