Impartial media coverage?

Originally Posted by Spiderman

what suprises me is that you think ANY mainstream media news is impartial or unbiased.

yes i know they all say they are but they simply aint.

A great example of this was shown recently when Israel and Lebonan had their little spat last year.
Everyone knew the name of the Isreali soldier who was "kidnapped" (you're probably saying it in your heads right now) yet not once did any mainstream news media announce the names of those killed in Lebanon.

This man makes the point about biased media much better than i ever could...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbEv0T2rwgo

Excellent clip Spiderman. I watch Sky News lots but hadn't seen that clip. I think it is like you say, a typical biased story by the media, to make it more news worthy.

So many times we here about what the media 'thinks' we will find news worthy rather than just providing all the facts. I suppose its all about ratings and viewing figures but it really winds me up sometimes.

Another example recently is the plane crash at Heathrow has anyone heard any media coverage applauding the aerospace industry for making the aircraft so strong that all those people walked away with their lives after the accident? I haven't I'm also biased towards the aerospace industry

Originally Posted by Fearg

Excellent clip Spiderman.

+1, Mr Galloway

[the_lone_wolf]

someone needs to tell him his accurate points would be more widely accepted if his argument didn't consist mainly of shouting down the presenter and waving his arms around...

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by Fearg

Another example recently is the plane crash at Heathrow has anyone heard any media coverage applauding the aerospace industry for making the aircraft so strong that all those people walked away with their lives after the accident? I haven't I'm also biased towards the aerospace industry

Nor how well air traffic control coped with the sudden loss of a runway and aircraft still approaching at one a minute. However, an IT failure in Brussels causes delays out of our control and all of a sudden were guilty of ruining the whole nations summer holidays and making children cry countrywide.

Originally Posted by tigersaw

... making children cry countrywide.

Ah - I can only aspire to reach such lofty heights of success.

Mixed feelings on this.

It would appear that had the cyclist not been breaking the law then the woman would have never hit him and he would not have lost his life. On the other hand, had she not been on her mobile, just maybe she would have been more alert to her surroundings and have seen the hazard unfolding in front of her and have taken avoiding action.

At the end of the day the cyclist paid the ultimate price by running the gauntlet of jumping a red light. No amount of finger pointing and blaming is going to make an ounce of difference to him. But should the driver of the car be made an example of I say yes. She was speeding and also on her mobile phone, as a consequence of this a cyclist is now dead. We all know that the current law for non use of mobile phones whilst driving is virtually ignored. That means us as motorcyclists are just as much at risk as we were before the law about mobile phone use was introduced. Maybe, just maybe if the courts are finally shown to clamp down very hard on these mobile using drivers, then they will finally take heed and stop doing it.

Well said that simian.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by BigApe

At the end of the day the cyclist paid the ultimate price by running the gauntlet of jumping a red light.

How can you expect to go in front of a car doing 45mph, which isn't expecting you there, and have any hope of not being injured?

Mobile phone or not, that cyclist commited suicide.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

oh yes, but you're forgetting that highlighting brutal terrorist atrocities and oppressing the native people of land ocupied illegally is antisemitism, apparently...

still not figured that one out

But they were persecuted by ze-germans, hence can do whatever they want.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

How can you expect to go in front of a car doing 45mph, which isn't expecting you there, and have any hope of not being injured?

Mobile phone or not, that cyclist commited suicide.

I don't understand why you've quoted what I wrote.

Is your statement implying that the cyclist was the only person at fault in the collision