Re: Deaths at WDW & Risk

Roy A Johnson wrote:
What we have to realise is that the media is not there to inform or
educate,it is merely there to create interest in in a topic in order
to sell sponsorship or advertising.
How many times have you seen on Tv an announcer saying that there is
important breaking new and after a word from our sponsor we will be
telling you about it.

Bingo! If it's really that important, they shouldn't be cutting to a commercial. What gets me is the overdramitization of the weather. I remember years ago, the only time they would actually break into programming was when there was a tornado. Now, if we get any weather beyond a scattered shower, we have constant weather 24x7. Even stations that are a little more subtle will keep the "warning map" on screen during the program, but it goes away so as to not distract from the commercials. if it's really important enough to show during the program, it should be important enough to show during the commercials, too.

While any ones death is tragic,because it make the news does not mean
risk of this happening to you has in any way increased.

Remember the rash of shark attacks at US beaches last year (or was it the year before)? Well, it wasn't a "rash", in fact, it ended up being statistically a slow year for shark attacks, but I guess it was a slow year for other news, so we got fed a seemingly endless stream of stories about it.

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- RODNEY

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