Hello to everyone again, it has been quite a while since we spoke and I do apologise for that, I don't have any extravagant excuse but rather I just haven’t. On top of that, this time I'm not going to promise to keep at my blog as much as others do, or even as much as others would like me to.
Now greetings aside I have thought this for quite a long time and tonight was the first time I have heard someone else of the same opinion as me about this topic.
I was driving home from basketball listening to Sunday Night Safran on Triple J. They had a special guest on whose name escapes me now, however he was discussing the fact that every time there is a situation overseas all the media focuses on the Australians. Now this is all good and well I am not against reporting news and reporting that x amount of Australians are missing, however it gets to a point where the missing/killed Australians become more important then everything else that occurred.
It could be that there was a bomb in one of Amsterdam’s biggest office buildings and 1000 people died. If there was just 1 Australian in that bunch, that’s .1% for those playing at home, they would get the majority of the focus for the news generally speaking.
Of course everything else will be covered, however it will most often me the case that the newsreader will say there were 1000 people killed in the blast and ONE Australian was killed, he was a prominent business man with KPMG and etc etc etc.
I am sure every country does it, however that doesn't mean everyone should be doing it.
This brings me to my next point which was brought up in Boston Legal (my new second favourite show, only behind How I Met Your Mother) in that news/media outlets are companies. They are there to make money, and in order to do that they need to have a larger share of the market. Maybe people only truly deeply care about the Australians that were affected, not me though.
If a major incident occurs and people die that needs to get a fair share of the broadcast in my opinion and the major focus of the article or news broadcast cannot be that out of a possible 1000 deaths, there was 1 Australian.
That’s the end of my rant, I would love to hear if other people take notice of this or don't think it’s happening and if people think that it’s ok to do this simply because, well everyone does it.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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I think that it come back to relevancy, the fact that there is an Australians that died makes it more relevant to people living in Australia. I think it makes it more rleevant to the persons life, it had a feel that 'shit that could of been me'. Having 1,000 people die in Africa is fucking awful but people cannot relate to that because people have lived in Western world all their life, but if someone life them dies then the story becomes more relevant and valuable.
Hmmm i have ranted and not made much sense.
I think what I was trying to say was, I am really happy that you have not given up on blogging and dont feel pressure to blog all the time, just dont give up on it all together. : )
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