Another year, another financial "crisis"
I was fortunate "ha!" enough to see a section of the TV news the other night and you know what? They're still pushing that fuel price crisis crap. The nightly news is only a pregnancy and mysterious stranger away from one of those Home and Neighbours dramas. As with those shows you only need to check in every six months to keep up with the story.
Guess what was on the news this particular night? The new year has brought, gasp-horror, a greater cost of living! Well blow me down, but isn't inflation the normal way of the economy? Ring me when the cost of living goes down - that would be news.
And what were they predicting? More expensive fuel. It could reach $2/L. Hang on, isn't that just what "could have" happened two months ago? Six months ago? A year ago? You can only flog that horse so many times before the statement becomes meaningless. Fuel could reach whatever it likes - how about reporting the news, not regurgitating alarmist catch-cries.
Or better yet, how about the doomsday, sensationalist, blame-everyone-but-yourself stories are contained within the current affairs shows. It's clear there's plenty of dependant, forgetful, finger-pointing imbeciles who gobble that stuff up night after night. Leave the news programs for new stories that stretch the mind and cover the world, instead of taking a panning shot of the front pages of readily-available newspapers with a suggestive and misleading voice over, and calling that a news story.
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All these zeroes next to the comment links was making me feel like I should rememdy the situation.
A well put article, no doubt. The real issue here I think is peak oil, and there are certainly some interesting doomsday sites which focus on the issue. Imagine the news stories then?
Posted by: Wiggers | February 6, 2008 6:45 PM