Hello Eric,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 7:47:15 AM, you wrote:
Yet - the entire world has to know about a storm that hits the
US...strange that is, don't ya reckon?
EH Why is that? Is that because of a lot of US owned newscasts? Why
EH does the rest of the world care so much about a hurrican in the US?
EH (or, i should say, why do the brodcast companies care so much?)
The broadcast companies care only about sensational stories. A
hurricane allows them to implement their disaster template to crank
out another sensational news story. Part of the template is a
description of how somebody died - the gorier the better (up to the
limit of 'good broadcasting').
EH My Indian friends are always amazed at how, when a few people die in
EH the US from weather, it makes huge national news in the US.
EH Natural disasters in India with anything short of 1000 deaths barely
EH makes their local news...
It's just the disaster template. During the hurricane it is likely
that more people were killed in traffic accidents, etc. It's not the
deaths, it's the sensationalism. Any event that fits one of the
templates will do - but most of them require that someone dies.
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