The "bizarre" incidents I collected in that post were by no means headlines, front page or breaking news. They were just sidelined pieces, humorous to me which is why I thought them repetition-worthy.
Before laying the blame at the door of western media your favourite whipping child, note that two of the four items were from The Deccan Herald of South India and one of the other two (the snake bite) was from the BBC World News website. Surely the BBC is not yet declining in readership or listeners enough to fit your 'declining western media' profile. Not every arrow carries a poison tip. Some are just dipped in a little lightheadedness. Besides, if the books published by your Goa 1556 were about perfectly normal people leading perfectly normal lives, very few would read them, let alone buy them, right? Regards. Roland Francis Toronto. > On May 27, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك > نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 27 May 2016 at 11:25, Roland <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This is the way the world was in the early morning of Friday, May 27. > > > Correction: this is the way the media you read (or listen to) told you the > world was. On Friday, May 27. > > Today, competitive pressures, the tabloidisation of news and the closing down > of newspapers specially in the West (among other factors) are pushing the > media to focus on the bizarre. If they told you about the perfectly > normal people leading perfectly normal lives across the planet, that would be > boring, right? > >
