I think you'll find that was the Mirror going to the Met wondering what the delay with their exclusive was!! But, yeah.Harold Hill said:
English newspapers & the Red Sea Ferry disaster
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detective-boy said:
Well then he still co-operated.
Galloway is likely to make at least one front page if they can get a picture of him sitting in that chair looking miserably, but I don’t think he is top story on the TV news yet, it seems to be being treated like the “joke/funny” story that they round up with.BarryB said:
But then that is a far more important story that 1500 people being lost in a shipping disaster, or would seem to be; he is the current bogyman of the press so they’d put him on the front pages for any reason they can ridicule him for.
IMO the reason the protests made the front pages but the ferry disaster did not is simply that a) it didn't involve any/many Brits, and b) it's not an event of much ongoing significance.
Ships sink on occasion - especially elderly, first-generation Ro-Ro ferries, badly maintained and overloaded, as this one seems to have been. This isn't the first disaster of its kind, it certainly isn't the worst (over 4,000 died in a similar tragedy in the Phillippines a few years back), and it won't be the last. Moreover, as far as we know, there were no british passengers aboard. Once the enquiry's over, it'll be quietly forgotten about.
The protests over those cartoons of Muhammad, on the other hand, can be protrayed as part of an ongoing, escalating 'clash of civilisations.' they're closer to home, of much greater political significance, and are rooted in issues of religious difference, tolerance and values that in general are quite widely discussed these days.
It's not a matter of conspiracy, or some conscious decision to keep the ferry disaster off the front pages, and IMO it's not racism either: it's simply that people are more likely to get worked up about the protests than about a tragic, but not unusual, accident.
Ships sink on occasion - especially elderly, first-generation Ro-Ro ferries, badly maintained and overloaded, as this one seems to have been. This isn't the first disaster of its kind, it certainly isn't the worst (over 4,000 died in a similar tragedy in the Phillippines a few years back), and it won't be the last. Moreover, as far as we know, there were no british passengers aboard. Once the enquiry's over, it'll be quietly forgotten about.
The protests over those cartoons of Muhammad, on the other hand, can be protrayed as part of an ongoing, escalating 'clash of civilisations.' they're closer to home, of much greater political significance, and are rooted in issues of religious difference, tolerance and values that in general are quite widely discussed these days.
It's not a matter of conspiracy, or some conscious decision to keep the ferry disaster off the front pages, and IMO it's not racism either: it's simply that people are more likely to get worked up about the protests than about a tragic, but not unusual, accident.
I think your points would be right if all the other papers did decide the cartoons were a bigger story, but look back at the paper, that isn’t what happened.
Here are the stories from the front pages that day: What made the papers is some sports person who has “disappeared”, the Muslim cartoons, Boom or Bust, something to do with Big Brother. New injections for kids and the Tax man is stealing our money.
Roadkill or slaar: Can you tell me when the main news item on the TV and radio news was not covered by at least some of the next days papers on the front page?
Here are the stories from the front pages that day: What made the papers is some sports person who has “disappeared”, the Muslim cartoons, Boom or Bust, something to do with Big Brother. New injections for kids and the Tax man is stealing our money.
Roadkill or slaar: Can you tell me when the main news item on the TV and radio news was not covered by at least some of the next days papers on the front page?
lostexpectation
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my mum, who is annoyingly ignorant, was half-watching the quarter past the hour headlines on sky news and saw close-up of an arab man whaling, crying and shouting and said
"I think these people are crazy!"
of course it was a mourning man from the ferry disaster nothing to do with the cartoons...
my mum, who is annoyingly ignorant, was half-watching the quarter past the hour headlines on sky news and saw close-up of an arab man whaling, crying and shouting and said
"I think these people are crazy!"
of course it was a mourning man from the ferry disaster nothing to do with the cartoons...
I would have thought that there might be more anger at how private companies can operate substandard vessels and through criminal greed and negligence kill thousands of people- I think there should be some CEOs and Chairmen charged with corporate Manslaugher (or the local equivalent).
Or what about some sympathy for the grief of the fammilies of the people involved.
Sorry folks but I think we should put theblame where it belongs
Or what about some sympathy for the grief of the fammilies of the people involved.
Sorry folks but I think we should put theblame where it belongs
Epicurus said:
I don't see what you think is wrong with mine and slaar's points now.
The media did make a bigger deal the outcry over a few cartoons, than over the deaths of 1,000 people in a ferry accident. I think that's because accidents happen, whereas 'clashes of civilisations' are news.
Simple as that. If you want me to go into the differences between the ferry disaster and other things you pooint out were made more of then I will:
*The media is obsessively interested in that bunch of spoiled, overpaid prima donnas known as professional footballers - one of them going awol is therefore always likely to be a big story.
*The 'tax man' story, I imagine, was from the Mail. They've an overt agenda to 'expose' labour's 'tax bombshell' and 'war on the middle classes.' They were always going to give that more prominence than a ferry accident in which no Brits died.
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