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Written by Tim at 1:10 PM
I put this in my own blog a few minutes ago, and figured I'd put it in here too. Cur non.
I felt like posting about the London thing yesterday, but never got a chance to. Everything about it is so wrong on so many levels. First of all, just that someone would do that in the first place is sick. Sick beyond belief. But what do we do with it? Feed it to you, because you LOVE it. All day on CNN was nothing but the London bombing. Why? Because the populace can't get enough. Before every commercial break? "Log on to our website for FREE VIDEO FEEDS from the London bombing, including interviews and special news reports!" Hell, if I didn't know better, I'd think CNN bombed the place. And how Eurocentric do we have to be to care so much? Doesn't this happen every other day in Israel? 33 dead in the Middle East is lucky to land a spot on the news ticker anymore. CNN Newsbreak: "London Police Cheif Thinks The Seperate Bombings Were Co-ordinated." Thanks. Let the police deal with it. We know what happened, and how terrible it is. The next step? Catch some al-Qaeda guys and give stupid American citizens more reason to hate Arabs. And I blame al-Qaeda for that, because they intentially fuel hate, which is disgusting. But isn't al-Qaeda pretty much a branch of U.S. Military? They wouldn't exist if our tax money hadn't funded all their weapons. It really just seems like the ball is in U.S.'s court, and we should do something about it. I wish.
I felt like posting about the London thing yesterday, but never got a chance to. Everything about it is so wrong on so many levels. First of all, just that someone would do that in the first place is sick. Sick beyond belief. But what do we do with it? Feed it to you, because you LOVE it. All day on CNN was nothing but the London bombing. Why? Because the populace can't get enough. Before every commercial break? "Log on to our website for FREE VIDEO FEEDS from the London bombing, including interviews and special news reports!" Hell, if I didn't know better, I'd think CNN bombed the place. And how Eurocentric do we have to be to care so much? Doesn't this happen every other day in Israel? 33 dead in the Middle East is lucky to land a spot on the news ticker anymore. CNN Newsbreak: "London Police Cheif Thinks The Seperate Bombings Were Co-ordinated." Thanks. Let the police deal with it. We know what happened, and how terrible it is. The next step? Catch some al-Qaeda guys and give stupid American citizens more reason to hate Arabs. And I blame al-Qaeda for that, because they intentially fuel hate, which is disgusting. But isn't al-Qaeda pretty much a branch of U.S. Military? They wouldn't exist if our tax money hadn't funded all their weapons. It really just seems like the ball is in U.S.'s court, and we should do something about it. I wish.
3 Notes -
The ball is in everyone's court: UK, US, Al Qaeda, CNN....
Until the ever so numerous parties involved recognize that, there's no hope. It doesn't mean they have to cooperate, but they have to understand the relationships of culpability and responsibility.
"Doesn't this happen every other day in Israel? 33 dead in the Middle East is lucky to land a spot on the news ticker anymore."
--depends only on the news source. CNN and other American news networks generally lead stories and report at a level lower than some better foreign ones, as I'm sure you're aware. So if you pay attention to different sources, you get a much better overall perspective. e.g. BBC and Al Jazeera together will give you a good and solemn grasp of both the bombings in Israel and London, together.
i had a few friends in europe visiting when the bombings happened and they said most of the news reports there were focusing on the possibility of an attack in Paris.
just a random comment.
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