Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Lottermoser wrote: >>His reports amaze me because we're not getting any news > coverage at all. Something seems terribly wrong with the "news > media" when for a month every other word is "anthrax" and when > 50,000 people don't have power, and a city is under two inches of > ice - no body knows didly about it.<<<<< Sorry to be coming in late on this...but... Your reaction surprises me, George. It's winter. There are winter storms everywhere, every winter. Every winter many millions of people get buried under snow and ice. Many millions of people go without power. And in the summer it gets hot. And every summer hundreds, if not thousands of people die of heat related medical problems. And airconditioners overstress power supplies and many millions of people go without power. Every summer. On the other hand, no one in the United States is normally exposed to anthrax by opening an envelope. The fact that that happened to even one person, anywhere in the country, much less in the Senate, major postal facilities, and at major media outlets, is a genuine news story - even if there weren't fears that these anthrax exposures were somehow linked to our "war on terror." Weather? BOoooooorrrrrring. News to you who are effected. Not news for the rest of us - even though local and national media go absolutely bonkers with weather stories. To me the real weather stories have to do with how a city such as Washington, D.C., which gets snow and ice virtually every winter, manages to shut down when the first flake hits. Or why people in Boston, where snow is a fact of winter life, go running for the supermarket every time there is a forecast of more than two inches of snow. Anthrax? Scarrrrry. Over played? No doubt. But genuine news. B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html