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Originally posted by Sly_RJ
This really has nothing to do about the war, but it's an interesting thing to hear about the media...
Since you're not from the United States, you might not have heard of this, BUT a couple summers ago (I'm thinking 2000), there was a huge shark scare in the United States. A couple people were attacked by sharks. I think a few even died.
Anyway, the media was reporting new attacks and potential attacks practically every day. Every year before this particular summer, you never heard anything about shark attacks. Well, people started to get really upset about this "epidemic of shark attacks" and many thought there were too many sharks in the ocean, maybe it's time to kill some of them.
After doing a little research, I learned that this particular summer actually had LESS shark attacks than most summers and the shark population was actually declining to dangerous levels, instead of the opposite. Turns out the extra coverage of the media made the people upset. You really can't blame the people, if you suddenly see all kinds of shark attacks, what would you think?
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I remember that. I have said it before and will say it again, the media exploits the news and in the case of the shark attacks their exploitation resulted in misleading people into thinking that there was something out of the ordinary about the number of shark attacks, when there wasn't. Much like their coverage of this war.