Okie dokie then! I mentioned in my last super-interesting blog (or not so much) that I'm looking to make things more interesting. I guess really to gain readers but to at least make my page readable!
NEXT! I was looking at 21 yo female blogger from Britain and she had mentioned the Australian Bush fires. Mum and I have often commented on how they are headlines all over the world. This woman from Britain said something small but stuck in my mind "My thoughts go out to those affected by this tragedy (translated from news-speak: Australians, I am so sorry. For reals)." She's a young woman, therefore when she says "I am so sorry. For reals" that's when I get how she feels. I was talking to my Mum and mentioned how the news doesn't really make anyone feel anything. I mean we might feel a little more informed but when we're told something like for example "6 dead in a suicide bomb in Pakistan" or something similar most of us don't even flinch. Once I started to notice that I do it, I felt guilty! Now I've often heard that we are desensitized to all these things going on because we hear it so often. I think that's only one part of it. I'm open to the possibility that the way news is delivered is so... monologue that the effect on us is wasted away. All this corporate ramble doesn't do anything for me. They talk about the hope of thousands like they were reading you the instructions to a new dryer. I've been told that their job is to report the news and that they are not supposed to have opinions or lead the public in certain directions. Last time I checked 181 people have died, DIED! In the Australian bush fires! In some cases whole families are burnt alive, now do you feel it? I'm pretty sure that the whole of Australia stands in the same place on that.
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