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   From: blaquepower@now.com   
      
   "Magda"  wrote in message   
   news:3fe54b01$0$1721$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au...   
   > lol that was a pretty funny post   
   >   
   > i for one would say that if the japanese dont let themselves get caught up   
   > in the world hysteria of terror, then they're not being terrorised, which   
   is   
   > in effect, defeating the terrorists and good on them.   
   >   
   > besides, i got sick of the constant coverage of september 11. here in   
   > australia, one of the two national airlines collapsed and went into   
   > receivership on the same day. but you'd be buggered to hear anything about   
   > it because of sept 11. not saying it wasn't important, but overcoverage   
   > shits me no end.   
   >   
   > yes, they may over cover in japan on things you think are unimportant too,   
   > but on the case of sept 11 - good on them for not geting wrapped up in the   
   > terror hysteria.   
      
   Well, not getting caught up in it is one thing, but that doesn't mean that   
   it isn't important news.  You know something is wrong when people think that   
   a high school girl singing group breaking up is more important than 3,000   
   people dying.  You're Australian, right?  If someone blew up the Opera House   
   in the middle of a performance and the same year the band Midnight Oil got   
   back together, which do you think is the bigger story?  They don't even   
   belong on the same program.  The example you gave was a good one, but   
   Japanese media, perhaps because of a lack of having anything newsworthy to   
   report, try to make the personal lives of celebrities something that should   
   be morning drive or prime time #1 news.  I only care about entertainers   
   doing one thing....entertaining me by their acting, athleticism, or whatever   
   brought them to the dance.  I don't care about who they date, nor do I care   
   about them visiting an elementary school.  There are people that do, but   
   when there is so much newsworthy stuff happening around the world in terms   
   of terrorism, economy, foreign policy, etc.  I refuse to believe that a   
   talentless hack getting pregnant is on the same fucking level.  Make an   
   entertainment news program and put it on there, but big-tittied Megumi going   
   to a movie and commenting on it will not bring me up to speed on national or   
   world affairs.   
      
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