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Monday, May 29, 2006
Drop the Dead Donkey
Amazing isn't it! The BBC Website made the Indonesian Earthquake their top story yesterday, moving aside most others with big bold headlines, and today it's a small left-hand corner piece with the small headline that the UN are saying that it is a move against time! I know we can all have compassion fatigue and that we are a shallow nation that prefers to look at celebrities private lives through a telephoto lens, but please!
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It's infuriating isn't it that every news item is now a one (if it's foreign) or a few (if Brits are involved) days wonder. As I mused on my blog site a day or so back, whatever happened to Bird Flu?
I know. I think 24 hr news has something to do with it! :/
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