Monday, 26 May 2008

Free newspaper part 1

The free paper you get at the station:
This afternoon I got the train. Picked up one of the last copies of a free newspaper at the station, as most of the free newspapers were already taken away by others in the morning.
One tiny article about the earthquake in China, not even on the front. That's not the point, the point is that they instead decided to put something irrelevant on the front page. Further, some news about the new Indiana Jones movie. Horoscope, weather, health, sport on the last pages and some economic news, pretty good for a free newspaper. Disadvantage is that it has more advertisement, but they are all tiny anyway.

Boycott for Indy?
The new Indiana Jones movie did not please everyone as communists in Russia want a boycott for this movie. They even claimed that the movie was a move meant to create a new Cold War. It's just fictional, I haven't seen the movie myself yet but I don't think it was a move to create a new Cold War. The world has many problems already, I certainly can't imagine that Spielberg made this movie just to create more problems. No, it's not a movie containing detailed FACTS about old communists, it doesn't tell people what's real and what's not concerning history, people should take it as it as: a fictional movie. Many newspapers worldwide wrote about this matter this /last week. (Image: Copyright Paramount Pictures).

Absurd.
Browsing the internet about this disaster, I see some comments by other netizens that catch my attention. Currently most people know about this disaster, the media is the biggest medium that updates people about what happens in the world and lately they did publish articles about this earthquake and many TV stations aired something about it too. So it's hard not to know about this earthquake. It surprises me that people say things such as that it's not strange that people do not know anything about the earthquake. What upsets me is that some netizens even dare to start comparing the current disaster with other disasters and its victims, making it seem that some people's lives in other parts of the world are more important! This is the part where I think people go wrong, how can you compare the lives of the Chinese people currently suffering from the earthquake with other people who are also suffering or have suffered from another disaster? A human is a human and I don't think another human should assume that some people deserve it more than others to live. What if those netizens are victims from a disaster themselves and others think the same way as they do? Meaning that people do not want to help them because they believe other victims deserve it more than they do to get help.

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