Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

I'm teasing you, TSS. I thought we'd keep the Boston stuff to one Beefy's - but that seems to have come to an end now anyway.

 

Anzor Tsarnaev (father) has said:

“Tell police everything. Everything. Just be honest.”

 

I am really interested to know the reasoning b ehind this bobmbing so hope this person pulls through long enough to disclose all. What were they trying to accomplish because whatever it was it didn't work.

If it was terrorism in the jihad mould then I would have thought that they would have been suicide bombers as they would have been able to cause more carnage by getting in amongst the crowd. With the bombs being placed on the ground it was going to be more likely that the bombs would cause damage to the lower body and therfore (thankfully) reduce the number of fatalities.

 

FBI website confirms that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is now in custody: http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston

 

I'm not surprised, BD.

If we measure a news item's worthiness by the death toll [not my parameter, I assure you, but often a news agancy's measure] then Iran's earthquake has every other news item beat. However, the Boston Bomber [see..? I just invented a tagline] is just such Hollywood that the news agencies have forgotten everything else.

I'm slightly sickened at the rubbernecking clamour that has gone on in the last few days. I've tried to avoid this news item and it's difficult to do so. That's how in-your-face it has been.

 

sooo.....anything interesting happened in the news today?

 

Crikey - anyone else seen Paddy Power's latest ad?!?!?! - http://www.not606.com/showthread.ph...r-ad-featuring-Kim-Jong-Un-and-Paolo-Di-Canio

 

Only reason why I know about the bird flu is because a family member works for the company that helps supply the drugs to try treat it. But as you say most news stations are crap anyways, I thought English news stations were bad until I saw Americas.

 

To be fair though, more deaths doesn't equal more newsworthy. The Boston situation was so newsworthy because there were, and still are, so many unanswered questions. We didn't know who the bombers were, we didn't know their cause, we didn't know how many there were and we didn't know if they'd strike again.

Once an earthquake has happened, that's that. When a bombing happens, you wonder if it's the first of many.

 

Yeah. What perfect timing.

 

This Eastleigh woman is heading for fame...


[video=youtube;9hWAU-lJFaM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hWAU-lJFaM[/video]

 

Yes, I know the angle you're looking at that from, Joe. But many people have died in those other news items and there may be people waiting for news. News isn't about intrigue or how interesting a story is, by its twists and turns. It's about making sure those that need to know, get to know. That's what sickens me about modern news reporting. It's more about being a show than it is about informing. Today I was working in the vicinity of a TV and it troubled me that an entire news programme [all bar 5 minutes] was taken up by this Boston item. Anyone would have thought this was a slow news week.

 

Well it's a supply and demand thing, isn't it. If the media are just giving the public what they want, then you have only the public to blame if the content isn't to your liking.

Good thing we have the internet.

 

What's the old Jam lyric..? The public wants what the public gets...

They say television merely reflects society. I often think it is so keen to reflect that it actually helps to pull the lead.

Indeed, good thing we have the internet to counteract the medium of television.

 

It would be interesting if the terrorist bombing was in Iran and the earthquake was in the USA how both stories would've been reported, I have often thought that lives in the western world carry much more 'weight' than the rest of the world in news reporting in this country.

 

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's arrest:

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Exchange of over 200 rounds of gunfire overnight, improvised explosives and grenades thrown at officers at the scene.

 

I think we both know the outcome of that scenario. It's demonstrated wherever you look.

 

Tsarnaev has been taken straight to Massachussetts General Hospital, is in a severe condition and is still bleeding.

 

Tsarnaev was discovered when a man noticed blood in the garden and on the boat in the garden. He went out to get a closer look and thought he saw a man under the boat - he then retreated to the house and made the call.