Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site cwruecmp.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!decot From: decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: The love affair between the "news" media and British non-commoners Message-ID: <1028@cwruecmp.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 06:54:25 EST Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.1028 Posted: Sun Feb 19 06:54:25 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 20:00:07 EST References: <935@pegasus.UUCP>, <7168@mgweed.UUCP> Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio Lines: 17 Randy King: Given the option of 100% "40 soldiers get heads blown off" and "9000 die in suicide-bomb blast" and all the other gory, disgusting sensationalism that the press feeds on... I dislike bad news as much as anyone else, but most everything respectable media report is TRUE, and maybe waving it in our face will make us more likely to DO something about it. I would be happier if the most important thing to be reported was "Another royal outing; how jolly!", but it isn't. But you're right, don't do away with pomp entirely; it gives us something to take our minds off tragedy. I think the recent advances in medicine have received far too little coverage, though. Dave Decot "Queen Elizabeth is a person, too." decvax!cwruecmp!decot (Decot.Case@rand-relay)