Issues hyped up by the media then forgotten

[kyser_soze]

The thread title asked what issues were hyped up by the media

...and then forgotten. I don't think anyone ever 'forgot' the issue of nuclear holocaust, just managed to better assess the risk.

Besides, as has been pointed out - there was no 'hype' about nuclear conflict; if anything large chunks of the press suppressed the idea that it might happen to serve the pro-nuke lobby's purposes of building more of the things.

Your comment about AIDS is pretty flip tho - try explaining to all those people who have died of AIDS that it was all a big hype.

 

[kabbes]

try explaining to all those people who have died of AIDS that it was all a big hype.

You'll have to speak up though.

 

[kyser_soze]

See how all the letters are in CAPS? I reckon you'd get some pissy spirits coming down saying 'Stop fucking shouting!!'

 

[kabbes]

To be pedantic, it would be them shouting and not you.

 

[London_Calling]

London teenagers haven't been stabbing each other on every street corner for a few months.

 

[Jenerys]

Do you think catastrophes have never happened?

I am overseeing the preparation of a number of them around the world even as we speak.

 

[toblerone3]

Thank goodness Sting brought us all to our senses.

"Mr Krushchev said he will bury you. I don't subscribe to that point of view." -

 

[behemoth]

You don't hear much about televangelists these days; I blame the Muslims for being the new religious figures of fun. Presumably they are still broadcasting on one of the hundreds of satellite channels.

 

[tbaldwin]

MPs expenses and poor poor students forced to work whilst studying.....