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• MrOneHundred0

  I am having mixed feelings about the media’s involvement in reporting the fires. I don’t really need to hear gruesome details of peoples’ deaths to feel the human impact – the numbers are enough. And now that the media circus has descended on the site of the disaster to present their morning shows, it really feels like a ratings grab.

  Actually, I don’t have mixed feelings at all – it makes me sick to my stomach that they are using very intimate details of peoples’ deaths to feed the notion of 24-hour news, and that we need to be glued to the TV all day to “get the latest”.

  Am I crazy?

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  • You're not crazy. I've heard people boiled to death in swimming-pools to escape the fire.Corvo2
  • totally agree.. it seems some media agencies are opportunistic and in some cases creating their own news stories..LeRoi
  • Which is pretty self-explanatory how media works out the value of an episode.Corvo2

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