Hi!

I don\'t think I\'ve ever doesn a proper rant, actually. I think Mega X did, once or twice, Otoko Ryoushi does it all the time and WindRider is renowned for it. My trurn.

What gets me annoyed. Well, these News of the World reporters who report on a tragedy. They also go to Africa. Anyway, they always ask obvious, yet incredibly insensitve questions. I\'ll list a few examples.

Comic Relief: They were reporting on two orphans. The mother had died of AIDS and the elder of the orphans had to look after both themself (I can\'t remember if the eldest was male of female) and their sibling. The STUPID reporter asked the poor child if they missed their mum. The child obviousely said yes and started crying. It\'s as if they wanted the child to cry for the camera (no doubt they did)

That one was a few minutes ago.

The next one is a little more vague. It was a few days after the Tsunami hit. The reporter asked him how he felt. He said he lost everything. All of his posessions, his fishing boat, his home and worst of all, his family. He said that he did not die, but he wished he had. Asking him how he felt is just a pathetic attempt for a news program.

Another example was in this country (England). Some poor family had their house flooded over a year ago. The house is still filled with shit (literally) and all the posessions in the ground floor and just above the stairs (including irreplacable sentimental items such as photographs etc.) destroyed! The insurance company was yet to pay up. Anyway, the reporter actually asked him how it felt to have everything he owned in to world destroyed! I was actually so shocked at this (and yelling things like \"How the fuck do you think it feels, moron!\") that I missed the reply.

Another thing that was stupid and got me annoyed was that I was travelling through Belgium and on either side of the road, there were literally millions of Brittish World War One graves. One graveyard ended, and another began. The idiot in front exclaimed \"Another one!?\". If she had muttered it under her breath in surprise, I wouldn\'t have anything againse it; but to yell it out like that...well I found it disrespectful to the bodies under there. On the same topic, I was in the biggest WWI grave in Belgium (biggest in Europe, I believe) and everywhere I looked there were so many graves. With no photograph could I capture just the scale of the whole thing! One thing that REALLY got me annoyed was how one TWIT made a joke about it \"Once they pop, they just can\'t stop\".

I get really annoyed by idiots just stating the obvious and being insensitive about it, or just being disrspectful over the war. So that\'s what got me rally annoyed, now. Oh, great! Now I\'ll have to go to Newgrounds or something to cheer up!

|EDIT| I\'ve colour-coded it to break it down a little to make it easier to read.

[Edited on 26/2/05 by Indifferent Protester]

[Edited on 26/2/05 by Indifferent Protester]

Well, IP, AirMan, Indifferent P, I\'ve never actually done a proper rant. And I prefer to think of it as a Public Service Announcement. *cough*

But yeah, I mean that is true. The least they could\'ve done was follow-up with a positive statement like: \"She\'s in a better place now\" or something like that.

As for the cemetary thing, don\'t get me started.

I\'m sure you have, once or twice. It\'s not that often, though.

I\'ve never ranted either, but I agree with what your saying. Reporters are not only insensitive, but they\'re also indiots that never think about anything but they\'re jobs, their reputations, and their hair. They all need to go hit themselves with something very painful, like the blade of a katana or something.

And another thing, the meteorologists never get the whether right!

No. I was supposed to get blizzards last week, but I didn\'t!

Yup, insensitve reporters, but that remark about meteorologists wasn\'t fair. It\'s is very hard to predict the Weather, especially in the UK as it has very variable weather.
Oh crud I think I swallowed my Geography teacher:sick:

Yeah, I know. Apparently, if it was one degree colder, we would have got blizzards. That\'s the way the cookie crmbles, I\'m afraid.

[Edited on 27/2/05 by Indifferent Protester]

The media is evil and people are stupid.

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