A Ponderance

[AndyS]

It also says a lot about how the media is now perceived. Back then, folk were prepared to believe what was printed and broadcast because the media was held (or held themselves) to higher standards. It is also worth remembering that radio was still a new technology in the '30s, broadcasting to a middle class audience and not really competing for ratings. Now, it is populist crap looking to shock and entertain, truth be damned.

I remember seeing this the other day - says a lot...http://www.readersdigest.com.au/popu...icle77699.html

[travelling_gerry]

hmmm....Real Estate Agents on top of Sex Workers...

care to comment TIF?

[AndyS]

(Quick check to make sure this hasn't been misplaced onto the InnForcers tour thread)

[.X.]

When 9/11 happened i was talking to some mates in the USA via IRC Chat. They told me about the first crash - I went out to the lounge saw the replay and watched 2nd plane hit on CNN - the future ex-Mrs exile and I sat dumbfounded in front of the TV for the next 3 hours.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I never questioned the reality of it.

[Burgs]

Country folk just pretend to be dumb so as to allow you city types to feel superior haha!

There's an exception to every rule...

I've always wondered what the steam does to the roads and why they have to roll it in

[Burgs]

When 9/11 happened i was talking to some mates in the USA via IRC Chat. They told me about the first crash - I went out to the lounge saw the replay and watched 2nd plane hit on CNN - the future ex-Mrs exile and I sat dumbfounded in front of the TV for the next 3 hours.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I never questioned the reality of it.

That would be partly explained by having had the heads up before you saw it Ex.
There are plenty of cases of people just stumbling across the footage without prior knowledge. I'm not saying living in denial or anything, just for the first minute, ten minutes whatever thinking it was a movie when they flicked the TV on during the night or first thing that morning.

[gustafsl]

In 2001 I was a 20 year old uni student still living at my parents place in Canada (same time zone as NY). So naturally I was not out of bed until 10am or so. Fired up the computer and started to "surf the net." When I went to the CNN site I was confronted with a headline along the lines of, "America Under Attack." The site was a bit slow loading so I remember thinking, this will be some major computer virus or something. When it did finally load and I started reading I went and put the TV on.

I'm not really sure how it was for you guys here but watching it all unfold on TV was a bit unreal. Not that I thought it was fake at any time. But watching it and having news reporters litterally saying they had no idea what was going on (kinda like a permanent Growden) was crazy.

[Cowboy]

I also wonder if the fact that the nature of the 9/11 attacks was something totally unexpected for us. If it was a bombing or something more conventional then we'd have seen it as a recognised danger. Instead it was something we hadn't really encountered and been afraid of before.
You could even extrapolate this to the reaction of the passengers of the respective planes. For the first three planes the passengers probaly didn't realise they were now aboard a missile and expected to be hostages or once they did they're inital shock didn't allow them to react. On the fourth plane the passengers had recognised the danger they were in and posed to others, gathered their courage and acted accordingly (I don't know of a civilian equivalent of Lest We Forget but one would be appropriate).

[blueandblack]

When 9/11 happened i was talking to some mates in the USA via IRC Chat. They told me about the first crash - I went out to the lounge saw the replay and watched 2nd plane hit on CNN - the future ex-Mrs exile and I sat dumbfounded in front of the TV for the next 3 hours.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I never questioned the reality of it.

I knew nothing of it until the morning news on the radio the next day, mentioning "the terrorist attacks in the US". After getting myself ready for work, turned on TV and there is was on all 5 stations.

At the particular moment it was occurring, I had just gone to bed after watching DS Beech bash DS Boulton's head in at the end of one episode of "The Bill". No news tickers on ABC, advising of any special or urgent news. Just another day, so I went to bed due to tiredness.

[Cowboy]

Gustafsl : you were in shock, like alot of other people. I remember my sense of the world being a bit not real the day and day after my Mum was killed in a road accident and I was stuck in Perth at the time.

[shasta]

Mrs Shasta & I had been out for dinner and had ajourned to the Casino. I immediately noticed that there were many punters watching the TV's rather than donating their hard earned to the needy Packer family. For a couple of seconds I thought "that's pretty strange all these people watching a movie......" then the penny dropped or rather crashed through.

[GIGS20]

Well, at least it doesn't involve Giteau...
Amazing what comes to mind when you are driving around the countryside!

runny now all that runs through my mind is a never ending loop of IlikemynewbikeIlikemynewbikeIlikemynewbikeIlikemyn ewbikeIlikemynewbikeIlikemynewbikeIlikemynewbike
Must be because I'm a city dweller!

[Cowboy]

I guess Burgs and my point is that because we have less contact with other people than the average city dweller we get alot more time for introspective thought.
This can be good, but when things start going wrong also goes along way to explaining the high level of risk of suicide for country men (highest risk group in the nation).

[GIGS20]

MY GOD, don't get all introspective on me, I'm in the last week of my job and Christmas Holidays are just 'round the corner.

ps teachers would have to be up there with suicide rate, think of the country male teachers, must suck to have a double bunger like that



pps how about young male country teachers! I don't know how lucky I am!

[Burgs]

Maybe that is the real reason we keep getting sent majority first year female teachers, it's actually a duty of care issue!
Oh well, I won't complain...