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Originally Posted by JustJess
Now, now, now, folks, let's play nice... I wasn't intending this to be an attack on particular people, only venting what are hypocrises for ME.
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My gripe was quite real. One of the negative effects of the information age is it makes people feel like experts on everything, when they have no backround on the subject matter. This allows them to be led quite easily and become hopping mad about issues they really don't have a clue on. While we find this most often with politics, it can be with any issue based on how its covered. Lets take the 'shark attack' summer of 2001. Every other story in the news was about a shark attack somewhere in the US. Sharks were showing up in national polls as a major issue to deal with. Well the funny thing was we had more shark attacks in 2000 but they weren't covered. So we had people worried and scared about the shark menace, and I'm sure some of them were hopping mad that the government wasn't doing its part to curb the shark overlord invasion, but it was actually less of an issue than years past.
As a side note, you can expect to see shark attack increases in Hawaii as the native tiger sharks are recovering from being over fished and hunted in the 1970's. It should be cute to see how that is covered.