Ah, 'Issues'

[narf poit chez BOOM]

This is funny...Sorta.

As you may or may not know, we here in Canada recently elected a conservative Prime Minister (President, for those of you down south).

And the liberal media where I live has already seized on the important; nay, the critical issue of the moment.

See, Stephan Harper (Our PM), drove his children (6 year old daughter, 12 year old son) to school, and then, in a dasterdly act only a horrible father could contemplate, Shook their hands, instead of hugging them! In front of all their friends!

This has been in the paper for a few days now; at it's latest, in an online poll.

How, in any way, shape or form, is this even the countries' business?

This whole thing gives me a nice, warm glow. I mean, if this is all the 'dirt' they could find on him... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Will]

Hey, at least your head of state didn't choke on a pretzel and have the media cover it for a full WEEK.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Owch, choking on a pretzel probably hurts, you know! And anyway there's plenty of other trash they can use against SOBush[/troll]

[El_Phil]

This is a serious problem, just follow the reasoning:

1. This clearly shows the Canadian PM is emotionally stunted who doesn't love his children.
2. If he can't even love his own children, how can he love the country?
3. If he doesn't love the country he must hate it.
4. If he hates the country he's a terrorist.
5. The only Canadian terrorist are from Quebec.
6. Thus he's a seperatist Quebecian terrorist working to bring Canada down from the inside.

Thus, using logic, you can prove that this is a deeply serious issue of national interest.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Will said:
Hey, at least your head of state didn't choke on a pretzel and have the media cover it for a full WEEK.



...Ok, I'm trumped.

[Fyron]

What, you mean you still expect real news from major news media? Especially TV? Its all just sensationalist drivel designed to boost ratings or sell ad space...

[Hunpecked]

It's no mystery. Like us on this forum, the news media will be desperate for news until SE V comes out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

What's sadder is according to an online poll, 42% think it's actually an issue.

[Slynky]

Imperator Fyron said:
What, you mean you still expect real news from major news media? Especially TV? Its all just sensationalist drivel designed to boost ratings or sell ad space...

IF has hit the nail on the head. Actual news of importance doesn't make money. That's why the main news channels in the US have sunk to sensationalism and mimicking the "scandal rags" that reside at the checkout lines in our supermarkets...because it/they make money. Given a wad of the population that plops down in front of the TV to watch Jerry Springer or the more refined version of bull----, reality programming (which really ISN'T reality), it's no surprise.

Keep the masses stupid and uneducated and feed them "pablum" and you (translation: the government) can do what you wish.

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're gonna call a show survivor... the contestants should only be kicked off for DYING!

[Renegade 13]

Suicide Junkie said:
If you're gonna call a show survivor... the contestants should only be kicked off for DYING!


Caused by the other "contestants" getting truly hungrey...

It seems obvious to me that Harper wasn't used to having the media poring over his every move, and didn't act in a natural way. Does it matter to anyone, or does it effect how he'll run the country? Not one bit.

It really is too bad the news outlets never cover many of the things that matter; science, technology, things that are actually interesting, rather than the endless drivel the feed us. Especially since all news stories are actually Vancouver stories here in BC, and since I don't live anywhere near the city, I really don't care.

Hockey. At least the news spends a couple minutes on hockey. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Go Canucks!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

[Atrocities]

How, in any way, shape or form, is this even the countries' business?



When you cannot destroy the message, destroy the messinger.

[Atrocities]

narf poit chez BOOM said:

Will said:
Hey, at least your head of state didn't choke on a pretzel and have the media cover it for a full WEEK.



...Ok, I'm trumped.



Don't forget the door... oh god where we be with the famous "exit stage right... oops door won't open" top news story for a week, fiasco.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

How conservative can a Canadian be? I once thought if Pat Buchanan was elected president that I would flee to Canada. But would I flee into another bastion of ultra right wing, insensitive childrens hand shaking, Seagrams swilling, Duct tape using, Stargate filming Conservatives?
Oh my!

Favorite chant during a Timbers soccer game to Quebec players "You'll never be a country!"
funny but mean!

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

It was probably hard to top the last scandal so they gotta pump the news up to something, take polls with the typical error margin, interview child psychologists and of course the man in the street interviews over this. Gotta sell those papers and get those ratings.
My kid asked me to give him a high five instead of a hug when he's around his friends. I was a little sad but understood.

[Renegade 13]

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro said:
How conservative can a Canadian be?


Very conservative. Me. Just wait till I become the PM, I'll change the country... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/stupid.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

[Kamog]

My Dad never hugged me, even when I was a little kid! Some dads are like that. It's not that unusual.

[dogscoff]

Had the man hugged or kissed his children at the school gates, the same newspapers would probably be screaming "PAEDOPHILE!!" and making even more meaningless noise.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Don't you just hate it when the DJ on the radio starts talking after the song starts/before it's over? And other important issues of the day.

[Intimidator]

dogscoff said:
Had the man hugged or kissed his children at the school gates, the same newspapers would probably be screaming "PAEDOPHILE!!" and making even more meaningless noise.




Indeed Dogscoff, I was thinking the same,,,,,
And don't even imagine what could have happened when he kissed his kid goodbye, Canada would be in an political crisis by now. And the US would have gathered his military forces at their Northern border to free those Canadian kids from that maniac.........

[Cipher7071]

It all makes perfect sense to me.
Tomorrow's headline:

MAN BITES DOG


(in front of hotdog stand)
Sensational!

[CapnMorgan]

I've read that typically media seems to be controlled by corporate interests and will generally try to depict the government in a negative light.

This is, supposedly, because it is in corporate interests to keep government small and out of the way.

So it would make sense that they would feed us nonsense like this business with Harper and his son rather than target actual numbers that truly affect Canada.

[Jack Simth]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
What's sadder is according to an online poll, 42% think it's actually an issue.


Umm... I'd like to question the validity of any such poll.
Tell me: if someone doesn't think it's an issue, at all, how likely are they to look for things on it?
If someone does think it's an issue, how likely are they to look for things on it?
Members of which group are individually more likely to find the poll: Those who think it's an issue, or those that don't think it matters?
With my own personal opinionated answers to the above questions, I strongly suspect any such poll is going to be very highly slanted in favor of "important", regardless of how the actual poplulation in general feels about it. If it only garnered 42%.....

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That's a point.