there is nothing new about my statement on the news media….I have despised them for decades….for they search for not news but sensationalism to report……every year some moron goes up Mt. Hood and gets lost or such and we here about these idiots ad nauseum…..now we have the Mt. Everest disaster where so many were killed in an avalanche….and now we have a show dedicated to these thrill seekers…..for one these people are nothing but adrenalin junkies, thrill seekers…the Sherpas were just trying to make a living….but the others are nothing but show boaters and junkies and the dignify their crass disregard for life just irks me….to NO end…I am not impressed by these types of thrill seeking morons……you want an adrenalin rush…the military can use a few good people and do something worthwhile.
I waited few days before writing this the see how the media would handle this story…….
An Afghanistan village buried in a landslide yesterday is now considered a “cemetery,” says a government official in Badakhshan province. The last of the rescuers gave up hope today of finding survivors in the mud that devastated the village of Abi Barik in the mountainous and remote northeast, reports the BBC. It will take some time to figure out how many were killed, with estimates ranging between 350 and 2,700, reports Reuters. The focus now will shift to providing help for the estimated 4,000 people without shelter.
“The scale of this landslide is absolutely devastating, with an entire village practically wiped away,” says an official with the International Organization for Migration. “Hundreds of families have lost everything and are in immense need of assistance.” Many of those killed were at their houses trying to get things in order after an earlier, smaller landslide. The area has been deluged with rain of late.
Of course this story is not important enough to interrupt the total mindlessness of the “nerd prom” in Dc or for anyone to really give a shit about those people in Afghanistan….they are just not important enough for our media to care…….I am disgusted by the flippant attitude of the media and for that point, most Americans.
This is why I prefer BBC news it is more to the point and interesting, with the exception of some “bladerunner” trial or the royals….their news is usually spot on without the sanitized, sensationalized crap that American news offers.
My sense of this is that the media reports on stories that dazzle us but have little relevance for what will affect our lives long term. The Everest tragedy is a distraction from more relevant news like climate change.
The minimal reporting on the landslide in Afghanistan ignores the amount of rain this area has been seeing over the last few years, which by some estimates could be part of the extreme weather that is created by a warming planet aided with the increase in atmospheric CO2 we humans generate by burning fossil fuels.
The corporate-owned MSM, heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, has done a terrible job reporting all of the extreme weather we are experiencing globally and its possible connection to anthropogenic global warming.
But according to FOX this is a normal progression…sorry has to be a bit sarcastic this morning…..