The press has long been guilty of using highly emotive language i.e. the use of strong words to play into the readers feelings – to coerce, to persuade , to horrify, terrify, support political parties, to hate others, and simply to sell papers. The use of vile over bad gives a larger feeling of disgust.
In Australia our politicians are doing this all the time. They have our nation terrified and elections are won on fear with statements such as “reds under our beds”. Our current government is particularly good at doing this (and in fact looking back most of our liberal leaders seem to use this form of control.) Our current leader has the nation worried about refugees, terrorists, Islāmic religion and using positive words for the destruction they are rorting on education, health and most of the social issues which affect people. The latest is ebola.
Ebola is a serious issue. There is no denying that. We need to get in and do what we can in West Africa but our PM is against this. The newspaper journalists I feel are a little sad we have not had a case in this country. We’ve had a few attempts. There was the nurse in Cairns then a few in Southern Qld but none developed so that the papers could spiral us quickly into a state of terror by the use of a similar reporting to the United States. The youtube above shows the differences between UK and US reporting beautifully.
When I saw this I couldn’t help but laugh and immediately thought of Jenni’s weekend funny challenge.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
Brilliant. Howard is excellent. We managed to persuade him to do a fund raiser for our youth club and he was marvellous.
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How wonderful. Always better in person.
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A morning laugh. Thank you!
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You’re welcome
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And this is why I don’t own a television! I can’t stand American newscasters or “Constant Negative News.” We go to the BBC website for international news. At home, I go online to Jon Stewart: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ysfr9u/a-million-ways-to-die-in-the-u-s-
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Sadly we are not permitted to view your link. It did give the consolation though that we can console ourselves with kangaroos and boomerangs. We too have given up on mainstream newprints and use the guardian for newsprint and other internet sites.
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We actually watch Fox News, CNN and Al Jazera – surprisingly Al Jazera is the least biased in its news. Sounds like Australia and the US have similar slants on the major TV networks – bombast,fear, and bloviating.
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Indeed. We read the Guardian, given up on Australian papers, and watch/listen to ABC and SBS. We don’t get Al Jazera but SBS certainly uses many of their stories. We like good old fashion reporting of the facts and let us make our own mind up.
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Excellent start to my day – thanks for that 🙂
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You are welcome Uncle Spike. Have a great weekend. 🙂
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I wish I could say this is a totally inaccurate portrayal of the American media portrayal of Ebola, but it’s not.
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Don’t worry Loril. Ours is almost as bad. At least your country is doing its bit to help in the eradication of it.
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Two words for this Irene: Bloody Brilliant 😀
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I rolled around the floor laughing with Dele Adebola XD
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Haha 😀
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I really enjoyed the very British comments of John Oxford: Britain need not worry about an epidemic, the virus simply would not like it here. Too rainy I guess.
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I agree – this really cracked me up. The whole thing. By the time it got to the footballer I was rolling round the floor.
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