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A red moon after all?
It is amazing that one of the historical breaking news of human kind
is hardly mentioned by the biggest, loud mouth, bully media in the world. I wonder if others notice the miniscule news being reported on this event by its giant TV media or in its internet website. They usually roar like a lion, but today they are quiet like a mouse. Good thing that they found other news to fill the time slot... bomb attack in Gaza, ferry accident in NY, CUB losing the game, or removing feeding tube in Florida. Mike Combs wrote in message ... Geoff Blackmore wrote: It'll be interesting to see if the US steps up to a new space race, The original space race began because the US was electrified by the news of Sputnik. To gauge the extent to which the nation is electrified by the news of the Chinese launch, I would submit as evidence the half-hour of CNN Headline News I watched this morning. They led with a sports story, spent about 5 minutes on the Kobe Bryant case, and then spent less than 30 seconds on the launch over half way through. or will the war on terrorism and growing deficit ensure the US can't afford it? There will be no galvanization of our space efforts, but I think you're pointing at the wrong reasons. The real reason is that nobody cares who's doing what in space these days. -- Regards, Mike Combs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely." Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier" |
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Pravda didn't take notice, the Chinese did not televise it.
"aniram" wrote in message om... It is amazing that one of the historical breaking news of human kind is hardly mentioned by the biggest, loud mouth, bully media in the world. I wonder if others notice the miniscule news being reported on this event by its giant TV media or in its internet website. They usually roar like a lion, but today they are quiet like a mouse. Good thing that they found other news to fill the time slot... bomb attack in Gaza, ferry accident in NY, CUB losing the game, or removing feeding tube in Florida. Mike Combs wrote in message ... Geoff Blackmore wrote: It'll be interesting to see if the US steps up to a new space race, The original space race began because the US was electrified by the news of Sputnik. To gauge the extent to which the nation is electrified by the news of the Chinese launch, I would submit as evidence the half-hour of CNN Headline News I watched this morning. They led with a sports story, spent about 5 minutes on the Kobe Bryant case, and then spent less than 30 seconds on the launch over half way through. or will the war on terrorism and growing deficit ensure the US can't afford it? There will be no galvanization of our space efforts, but I think you're pointing at the wrong reasons. The real reason is that nobody cares who's doing what in space these days. -- Regards, Mike Combs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely." Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier" -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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A red moon after all?
"aniram" wrote in message om... It is amazing that one of the historical breaking news of human kind is hardly mentioned by the biggest, loud mouth, bully media in the world. I wonder if others notice the miniscule news being reported on this event by its giant TV media or in its internet website. They usually roar like a lion, but today they are quiet like a mouse. Good thing that they found other news to fill the time slot... bomb attack in Gaza, ferry accident in NY, CUB losing the game, or removing feeding tube in Florida. I too was amazed. Maybe it left a sour taste in the mouth of some people in authority. OTOH, perhaps they were just too stupid to see what a momentous event this really was. It's not as if the Chinese are just going to give up having proved a point - they're not Americans. -- Dirk The Consensus:- The political party for the new millennium http://www.theconsensus.org |
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I agree totally. CNN even sent out a 'breaking news' e-mail about the
launch to those on their list, but when I tuned in for coverage there was not even a mention. I was particularly disgusted with the ferry coverage. That should have been a local rather than worldwide story. Does NY think they are that important to the rest fo the world? -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. It is amazing that one of the historical breaking news of human kind is hardly mentioned by the biggest, loud mouth, bully media in the world. I wonder if others notice the miniscule news being reported on this event by its giant TV media or in its internet website. They usually roar like a lion, but today they are quiet like a mouse. Good thing that they found other news to fill the time slot... bomb attack in Gaza, ferry accident in NY, CUB losing the game, or removing feeding tube in Florida. |
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CNN serves NY and LA, not the US. A couple years ago we had a 24 car
pileup outside Kansas City that killed 10 and injured many more. Didn't get a fraction of the coverage the ferry got. CNN considers 10 people dying in NY a much more important story than 10 dying in the Midwest. As for the breaking news e-mail - my e-mail program checks my e-mail every 5 minutes. I turned on CNN immediately when it came in and watched for an hour without a single mention. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. Ha! Ur 1st mistake is thinking CNN serves the world, not focusing on the Americans. Repeat after me. Time Warner is a US company. CNN did put the launch news in the front for almost one day. Now think abot this. People are killed in New York. Many are hurt. It's not clear whether it's an accident, or a planned one. Is it important? You tell me. By the way, there is one day between the LAUNCH and the ferry accident, or Cub losing. Breaking news emails are not useful if you don't check your emails that often. Hehe. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. It is amazing that one of the historical breaking news of human kind is hardly mentioned by the biggest, loud mouth, bully media in the world. I wonder if others notice the miniscule news being reported on this event by its giant TV media or in its internet website. They usually roar like a lion, but today they are quiet like a mouse. Good thing that they found other news to fill the time slot... bomb attack in Gaza, ferry accident in NY, CUB losing the game, or removing feeding tube in Florida. |
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(Gene Seibel) wrote in message . com...
CNN serves NY and LA, not the US. Ur wrong. Anyway, if you wanna think so, fine. Then you answered your own question. If CNN serves NY and LA, why is it wrong to put NY ferry accident more important than Chinese astronaut coming home? A couple years ago we had a 24 car pileup outside Kansas City that killed 10 and injured many more. Didn't get a fraction of the coverage the ferry got. CNN considers 10 people dying in NY a much more important story than 10 dying in the Midwest. 10 people dying in an accident, plus thousands scared on the ferry not know what happened, jumped into water, or have their legs broken by the accident (or watch the bad bloody scene), and then the boats gotta suspended so today 60,000 people gotta find some other way to go for work, and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow...... No matter what, if you hate CNN, fine. Switch to People Daily or Xinhua. You're gonna love it As for the breaking news e-mail - my e-mail program checks my e-mail every 5 minutes. I turned on CNN immediately when it came in and watched for an hour without a single mention. Turned on CNN? Hey, you use emails to notify you of breaking news but you don't use http://www.cnn.com/ but you wanna use television program. Funny. Why using an online tool for breaking news but use another media to see that? Your pocket PC screen too smal?? Fine. You wanna watch television, then you know CNN, or any other TV media, wanna have some video to show. For the ferry accident, you got video. For Chinese astronaut going home, you only have a short video released by Beijing authority. Which video do you wanna show before you **** off the audience make them bored? You tell me. It's your freedom. Again, it is a news for Chinese to launch a guy into space, but it's not such a big news for him to return home safely, when 10 people in NY lost. Russia and US did it 40 years ago, and tons of countries can do it but not did it. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. Ha! Ur 1st mistake is thinking CNN serves the world, not focusing on the Americans. Repeat after me. Time Warner is a US company. CNN did put the launch news in the front for almost one day. Now think abot this. People are killed in New York. Many are hurt. It's not clear whether it's an accident, or a planned one. Is it important? You tell me. By the way, there is one day between the LAUNCH and the ferry accident, or Cub losing. Breaking news emails are not useful if you don't check your emails that often. Hehe. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. It is amazing that one of the historical breaking news of human kind is hardly mentioned by the biggest, loud mouth, bully media in the world. I wonder if others notice the miniscule news being reported on this event by its giant TV media or in its internet website. They usually roar like a lion, but today they are quiet like a mouse. Good thing that they found other news to fill the time slot... bomb attack in Gaza, ferry accident in NY, CUB losing the game, or removing feeding tube in Florida. |
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(Gene Seibel) wrote in message . com...
I agree totally. CNN even sent out a 'breaking news' e-mail about the launch to those on their list, but when I tuned in for coverage there was not even a mention. I was particularly disgusted with the ferry coverage. That should have been a local rather than worldwide story. Does NY think they are that important to the rest fo the world? -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. I was quite surprised that none other than the BBC led its coverage that night with the ferry disaster. NYC truly is the Capital of the World! |
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A red moon after all?
"Newsgroup Poster" wrote in message om... (Gene Seibel) wrote in message . com... I agree totally. CNN even sent out a 'breaking news' e-mail about the launch to those on their list, but when I tuned in for coverage there was not even a mention. I was particularly disgusted with the ferry coverage. That should have been a local rather than worldwide story. Does NY think they are that important to the rest fo the world? -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. I was quite surprised that none other than the BBC led its coverage that night with the ferry disaster. NYC truly is the Capital of the World! And for real amusement consider the fact that Plutonium smuggling no longer even makes it to the national news. -- Dirk The Consensus:- The political party for the new millennium http://www.theconsensus.org |
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A red moon after all?
10 people dying in an accident, plus thousands scared on the ferry not
know what happened, jumped into water, or have their legs broken by the accident (or watch the bad bloody scene), and then the boats gotta suspended so today 60,000 people gotta find some other way to go for work, and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow...... A local story. Fine. You wanna watch television, then you know CNN, or any other TV media, wanna have some video to show. For the ferry accident, you got video. For Chinese astronaut going home, you only have a short video released by Beijing authority. Which video do you wanna show before you **** off the audience make them bored? You tell me. If they choose their stories by what video they have, they are entertainment, not news. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. |
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