http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201786,00.html
This Fox News article was titled "Big Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth". To me, I clicked on it because I thought it would be another crazy armageddon media threat to scare or provoke interest. In this way it did, but as the story begins with its lede, it loses my interest because it almost immediately claims there is no threat to Earth: "...but astronomers say there is no danger of an impact."
And just to put out the last flame of my morbid world-ending interests, it is revealed that the distance of the asteroid is further from the moon, and will be barely visible even with a telescope. Not only that, but it was discovered and analyzed in 2004, and is no surprise to astrologists.
It then ends with a imagined background of a normal star filled sky, but with a little shooting star at around midnight.
But mybe this was the point... to make us feel secure. As a mater of belief, I follow conservative radio and news, and the main stories ou hear end in "everything is okay in your backyard" or "be involved, but stay at home".
What a waste of someone's time! At least the radiclly-liberal New York Times sparks national interest... the best thing anyone else has outside that newspaper today is Anna Nicole Smith's dead carcass and stories full of "NOYB" (None of Your Business).
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Haha...reading this only made me smile. Well I guess thats what you can expect from the conservatives. They want to make it seems like everyting is perfect and that nothing bad is happening. And for you who has such vivid imagination, seeing a leading like in the article you read, well that is kind of a disapointment. I agree no more Anna! It is no one elses business of what happens to her, but sadly that is all the media can cover. We just can't get enough of other peoples lives.
I don't really see how something like a asteriod could be viewed as conservative or liberal reporting, but I suppose anything like that is possible with Fox News. I think most media followers know by now that Fox News is not as 'fair and balanced' as it claimed to be. But The New York Times, radically liberal? Tell that one to Blade. I recall him having it out with someone last semester after saying that.
Anywho, I actually read an AP article Sunday, about another asteriod that is projected to hit earth around 2036. The reporter said that the asteriod could possibly take out an entire city, and that scientists wanted to take the issue to the UN.
Media does have a way of scaring readers. I reacted to the article I read in a way that was probably similar to your reaction. If that one hits, and another prez like Bush is in office, then we should be scared. Just look at how he handled Katrina.
PS- All this dirty Anna Nicole tabliod shit is kinda a guilty pleasure. So blame me, i'm a reader of it!
thank you very much lorrenna and chris... where's Sanchez (the other group memeber whom i cant remember the first name) anyways?
but yes, Chris, I undertasnd that you want me to duke it out with the teacher, but I know my own personal viewings of the front cover of the NY Times, and it always surprises me, but it's so surprising that it is radically-driven.
For example, if any of you remember when some American/British and mostly Iraqi forces struck and obliterated a massive Muslim-extension cult and killed quite a few (i think it was last month, but I cant find the article), the first thing on the New York Times was how it almost failed.
That's nice to catch my attention i suppose, but a little more derogatory and discouraging, to military-efforts, compared to other alternative sides of the story which would be just as eye-pooping, in my opinion...
How about an article on how this Muslim-extension cult started and what motivated this certain group to going suicidal when they were doomed to fail. That doesnt discourage anyone, but rather puts a light on the reasoning for radical-Muslim reistance, not for the reason to fail.
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