cocheese 0 #1 April 30, 2011 I come to the Bonfire for answers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #2 April 30, 2011 Because of the Royal Wedding lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 8 #3 April 30, 2011 Quote I come to the Bonfire for answers. Because the american population has a short attention span, many have forgotten about it. Media also never likes to report good things. But I'm not going to rant on there... "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #4 April 30, 2011 http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Japan&cf=all&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q I'm not sure I'd call 48,172 results in the last week "no news." But if you're getting all your news from Bonfire, then maybe there's "no news.""There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cocheese 0 #5 April 30, 2011 Cable news, news papers, and most internet news headlines have nothing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bertt 0 #6 April 30, 2011 Cable news is best at telling us what color panties Lindsey Lohan is not wearing this week. Just a quick sample, BBC news and Pakistan Times both have articles on Japan today.You don't have to outrun the bear. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #7 April 30, 2011 Quote Cable news is best at telling us what color panties Lindsey Lohan is not wearing this week. Just a quick sample, BBC news and Pakistan Times both have articles on Japan today. It's why I changed the news feed on my Google homepage from CNN (Celebrity News Network) to Reuters.... so I'd be more likely to get actual news. And why I get most of the rest of my news from The Economist and NPR (okay, and The Daily Show too )."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewGuy2005 53 #8 April 30, 2011 Because of the tornadoes in the U.S. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 210 #9 April 30, 2011 Because Japan getting nuked is old news Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #10 April 30, 2011 Japan doesn't want to admit how high the body count is, and the governments of the world don't want to trigger another recession. They are still the third-largest economy. But hey, the top news story about Japan is how an ice skater brought a "little smile" to the people of Japan: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/sports/01skate.html No disasters here - please ignore the death toll and environmental crisis. Smiles, people, smiles!Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #11 April 30, 2011 Because we have all been trained to have the attention span of a Gold Fish... Anything from last week is old news, anything older is historyNow go and be good sheeple and turn to the funnies or the latest reality T.V prog and leave the running of the world to your betters. (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 9 #12 April 30, 2011 Quote I come to the Bonfire for answers. Godzilla attacked and took out all the news choppers! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #13 April 30, 2011 Some will say it's due to the short attention span the internet has given us, but I think if you look at disaster coverage in news going back as far as you can, you'll see there is a pattern (completely unintentional but there none the less) of how news covers just about any disaster. Early on it's all about the scope of the tragedy. Reporters from all over the world flock to the scene and report in a very high volume. Understandable if you think about it. Day 3 to 5 it's about finding the unexpected and unlikely survivor in the rubble. As a week goes by all hope for further survivors is given up and it goes to body recovery efforts. By the end of 2 weeks. There really isn't much left to say and most of the news organizations that have sent reporters HAVE to bring them back simply for financial reasons. This means that the reporting being done is mostly left to local reporters, but depending on the disaster, they probably have real survival issues of their own if, in fact, their news agency is still even operating. It's not so much that the world doesn't care, but new local tragedies pop up or some "royal" twits get married. It's just the way it is.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
