Man dies of old age.
(Sir Edmund Hilary) - Top headline on Radio 4 news this morning - Today Programme.
Whole population put at risk for millenia.
(British Government invites tenders for building nuclear power stations.) Not in the headlines - 'Yesterdays News'
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- It's one of those odd things . . . I live in my little house by the sea and listen to the radio and reckon I know best about more-or-less everything . . . as I keep telling the news-casters, the policiticians and all the experts interviewed there. I shout quite loud - but I'm beginning to suspect they can't hear! Sometimes, I write to my MP . . . but there's always more to say. So, here it is!
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7 comments:
Indeed, and which makes more comfortable news?
Yesterday, they gave out so much information on the nuclear power issue, that I ended up depressed and confused. Not much point keeping on mentioning it, when all the listeners will do is switch off. But, on the days when I believe in conspiracy theory, I think that is the plan.
Hello Aliqot
Yesterday, there were times when I came close to feeling hopeless. . . in the sense of feeling perhaps trule nothing can be done about it . . .
But here is an odd thing . . . Mostly, you get an announcement that something is going to be said, then that it is being said, then that it has been said. So this morning should have been the 'has been said' phase for people who didn't hear it on the news yesterday evening but it was missed out.
This blog is supposed to be called SHOUTING AT THE RADIO but I was so surprised by the absence of the nuclear power issue in the headlines that I was rendered speechless . . . so I wrote them down as they were read out . . .
1. The death of Sir Edmund Hilary.
2. Peter Haine not declaring £100,000.
3. Vets examining dead swans on Chesil Beach.
4. Tony Blair thinks an agreement may be made between the Israelis and Palestinians may be reached before President Bush leaves office.
5. DNA from the student who was murdered in Italy has been found on the clothing of a suspect.
6. Ringo Star will be playing on a roof-top in Liverpool.
Well, some of these headlines touch on clearly important issues . . . but the actual content is pretty thin . . Peter Haine is looking at his cheques, Tony Blair is thinking something, police have found a clue, someone is playing a guitar.
. . . . ?
Susan
It's a hard one, right enough. They who control the media often try to control us.
Here in our small town in New Zealand - pop. approx. 7450 - some of us didn't like the lack of community cover given in our local papers. We started a free fortnightly community newspaper "The Kawerau Voice".
With modern computer software and printing technology, it's not so difficult. I was a founding editor, and we found that our people were very keen to have their own paper.
If one can leave one's personal political, religious, etc. aside, it's then possible to make your own headlines to suit your readers.
David.
David . . .
But I'm not sure headlines should be made to suit readers, rather, they should direct the attention of the readers to things which matter!
Sign the European petition against the nuclear industry at:
http://www.million-against-nuclear.net/
Bob
Hello
Thanks for the suggestion . . . but this petition seems to have been handed in last March!
Susan
I've re-started this conversation with today's post (10th February 2008) . . . it says . . .
"If the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments on law can engage the media for days on end . . . I'm hoping he'll say something about nuclear power soon!"
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