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long time no see
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Fluffy Sheep
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Posted - 28/07/2007 : 21:48:10
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My son spotted this one earlier. The reaction in this household was not all that sympathetic. The whole `news frenzy` thing is quite disgusting, really, and my son expressed the opinion that these folks were out to get maximum footage from every angle because what didn`t go out on news programmes would be sold to the TV companies for `real cop-chase` complilation programmes.
It was also suggested that the criminal being chased might have caught the crash on his mobile phone..and sell it to the media.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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dom
Barsoom
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 Posted - 28/07/2007 : 21:52:36
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| I agree to be honest. When I heard the news I rolled my eyes and thought how surprising it is that this hasn't happened before. I don't wish it on anyone, but it was only a matter of time. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6771 Posts |
Posted - 28/07/2007 : 22:04:21
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Typical America
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 28/07/2007 : 22:30:09
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It`s not just America, LT. I tend to channel-hop round my `freeview` options while eating my supper, and the number of these cop-car and helicopter chase progs is both alarming and depressing...and some of them feature chases in the UK too - and why are we getting inundated with all this? There must be a market for it, a demand. It leaves me cold, but it`s the `reality tv` mentality, isn`t it? Why are so many folks so pathologically BORED with their own lives that they need to watch other folks live? Create `Celebrities`, famous or infamous, with nothing to get famous about...
Real celebrities wouldn`t lower themselves to perform for this type of telly. Folks who watch it need to get a life, they`d only desert their tv screens if a neighbour`s house is on fire or there`s a couple of police cars or an ambulance screaming up their own street, and then they stand around gawping and getting in the way. There`s a little bit of the Papparazi in Mr. Joe Public, and it`s creating the demand that led to the story you [posted here, LT.
Sign of the Times? Yes, and it`s getting worse. |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/07/2007 : 22:35:21
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Two News Helicopters
smashing into each other
would only be in Frenzy News America. |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 28/07/2007 : 22:59:29
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| OK, we`re not quite as far gone in the UK -YET. |
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dom
Barsoom
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Posted - 29/07/2007 : 11:01:58
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| Fortunately when a UK car chase is shown on telly it is from a police helicopter not a news organisation's one meaning that 2 or 3 choppers aren't following the same thing. Also in the case of the recent floods, news helicopters were banned from local airspace to allow the rescuers to get on with the job, so hopefully measures like this mean people can watch their car chases if that's their prerogative without it getting in the way of emergency services. |
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Fluffy Sheep
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Posted - 29/07/2007 : 17:43:43
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 Yes, I suppose it keeps them off the streets! It is good that the news helicopters were made to keep clear for the flood rescues, too. |
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Two USA News Helicopters Crash into each other
