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What Is Wrong With News In General?

Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I found this today....
Winter Olympics 2018: Norovirus hits Pyeongchang to add to cold worry | Metro News
It’s the latest crisis to hit the Games, which officially gets under way with the opening ceremony on Friday. There were already concerns about the severity of the cold currently freezing Pyeongchang. Temperatures during the opening ceremony are expected to be -10C, while the wind chill during rehearsals plummeted to -23C.
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Why on Earth would they complain about mild winter temperatures in winter being too cold?
It's fundamental to the Winter Olympics to have below freezing temperatures for outdoor venues.

This isn't the only example where I see mistaken outrage.
I invite fellow posters to supply their own favorite dumb news coverage.
 
Flame

Flame

Beware
Is that area not use to that level of cold? Single digits and below zero temps are normal out here on the plains but my mother in Penn state is shocked by it.
 
Notanumber

Notanumber

A Free Man
A friend of mine fought in the Korean War. He didn’t like to talk about it but he once commented about how blo*dy cold it was especially at night.
 
HonestJoe

HonestJoe

Well-Known Member
Revoltingest said:
Why on Earth would they complain about mild winter temperatures in winter being too cold?

It's fundamental to the Winter Olympics to have below freezing temperatures for outdoor venues.
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To be fair to them, the stadiums used for the ceremonies are usually at lower altitudes than the open venues for the outdoor events so generally aren’t that cold. Pyeongchang is at a higher altitude, hence the lower temperatures than usual expected for the opening ceremony. It’s over-dramatic and rhetorical coverage and they would have gone the same way regardless of the facts, but this is at least based on some element of reality.

Revoltingest said:
This isn't the only example where I see mistaken outrage.
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That’s because it isn’t actually news, it’s low-brow entertainment. Metro is a “news”paper published by the same organisation that squeezes out the Daily Mail. They don’t get readers with facts, they get readers with drama. :(
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Notanumber said:
A friend of mine fought in the Korean War. He didn’t like to talk about it but he once commented about how blo*dy cold it was especially at night.
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My father fought there too. We were from Minnesota, but it was cold even by Minnesota standards at the Chosin Reservoir. I have read articles that said at the worst it dropped to -35 F, and that is without windchill. The temperatures at the Olympics are outright balmy. It is not cold there, but the virus is a legitimate concern. With the vaccine running only fifteen percent effective that is what they should have focused on.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Subduction Zone said:
My father fought there too. We were from Minnesota, but it was cold even by Minnesota standards at the Chosin Reservoir. I have read articles that said at the worst it dropped to -35 F, and that is without windchill. The temperatures at the Olympics are outright balmy. It is not cold there, but the virus is a legitimate concern. With the vaccine running only fifteen percent effective that is what they should have focused on.
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Aye, the virus is a real story.
There's no good result from getting a case of
the Hershey squirts while skating or skiing.

Thank you, @Wirey , for that technical term.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Revoltingest said:
This isn't the only example where I see mistaken outrage.
I invite fellow posters to supply their own favorite dumb news coverage.
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News is to make money, so what makes the news is what interests people. All of it has some sort of bias.

Personally, I find the trivial habits (like what they wore) of famous people to be just dumb. Who cares? (Obviously many people do, but why?)
 
Orbit

Orbit

I'm a planet
Most of our news is contextless at best. You can't explain complex social issues in 30 seconds. That's why I prefer to get news from the BBC or Al Jazeera because at least they give the history and context of an issue.
 
Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
What a bunch of whoosies. Didn't hear any whimpering in 1988 at the Olympics in Calgary Canada.

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And it's colder there!

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Guy Threepwood

Guy Threepwood

Mighty Pirate
Revoltingest said:
I found this today....
Winter Olympics 2018: Norovirus hits Pyeongchang to add to cold worry | Metro News

Why on Earth would they complain about mild winter temperatures in winter being too cold?
It's fundamental to the Winter Olympics to have below freezing temperatures for outdoor venues.

This isn't the only example where I see mistaken outrage.
I invite fellow posters to supply their own favorite dumb news coverage.
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Yeh but you read it didn't you? what choice do we have?

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”: Mark Twain
 
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