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[Kevin Wood]

When it comes down to it....everything is just a point of view.

The thing that annoys me most about the news is the predictions side of it. It is much more sensationalist to report that 65000 could die of swine flu than 3000 will probably die of swine flu.
There is always a nutter on hand to feed the BBC a load of tosh and, by God, dont they just love it.

That is a VERY interesting observation STMO since the weather "forecast" on TV mainly consists of factual statements about what has happened!

The common factor is "change for change's sake" resulting in "lost plot".

I said news. Didn't mention the weather forecast which is not strictly news.

Well, they've got it all @rse about. The news tells us sensationalist stuff about what might happen instead of reporting what has happened, and the weather forecats tells us what has happened instead of telling us what is forecast to happen. 

Kevin

[STMO999]

When it comes down to it....everything is just a point of view.

The thing that annoys me most about the news is the predictions side of it. It is much more sensationalist to report that 65000 could die of swine flu than 3000 will probably die of swine flu.
There is always a nutter on hand to feed the BBC a load of tosh and, by God, dont they just love it.

That is a VERY interesting observation STMO since the weather "forecast" on TV mainly consists of factual statements about what has happened!

The common factor is "change for change's sake" resulting in "lost plot".

I said news. Didn't mention the weather forecast which is not strictly news.

Well, they've got it all @rse about. The news tells us sensationalist stuff about what might happen instead of reporting what has happened, and the weather forecats tells us what has happened instead of telling us what is forecast to happen. 

Kevin

Calm down, calm down

[Kevin Wood]

Calm down, calm down

I'm trying, but it gets harder every day.

 

Kevin

[STMO999]

When I went to the docs with stress a few years back, he told me 'Dont watch the news. It's just a load of stuff that obviously upsets you and which you can do absolutely nothing about'

[Nickbat]

When I went to the docs with stress a few years back, he told me 'Dont watch the news. It's just a load of stuff that obviously upsets you and which you can do absolutely nothing about'

That's right. Still, at least as an adult, you can sift through the media stream and reject the rubbish. Children don't have that ability and can suffer in ways we do not readily see.

[Dishevelled Den]

When I went to the docs with stress a few years back, he told me 'Dont watch the news. It's just a load of stuff that obviously upsets you and which you can do absolutely nothing about'

That's right. Still, at least as an adult, you can sift through the media stream and reject the rubbish. Children don't have that ability and can suffer in ways we do not readily see.

........hence being in the cross-hairs of the weapon of propaganda currently being aimed by the cowardly bastards who will stop at nothing to get their message across.