Meatpie
30-01-10, 09:33 PM
If you follow any of the major publisher in the UK you can't fail to notice that their most read stories are always about murder, death by accident and often about that children.
The BBC is not that into this kind of stuff, its more into political skirmishes but the Daily Mail is filled with pages and pages of info about dead young people, dead teachers, murdered kids etc.
It is people's worse fear. We all fear death and we fear the death of our loved ones.
So people read up these stories, about how other people died so that they are informed about reality and be prepared when their turn is up.
Are you for or against publishing such materials?
Under communism in my country if there was a disaster, like a train wreck with many peopel mangled and gutted no news will be published so that people don't get stressed!
They will get the corpse, clean the site and that's it. Cover it up like they did when the nuclear power plant exploded.
Eventually news spread by word of mouth but this was a slow process.
Now I can go onlike, search on google and get all the deaths reported from around the world.
What is your verdict?
Why do we read all those nasty murder and accident stories? Because we fear we could be next?
Or we get horny by imagining naked dead bodies?
What is it that makes people read nasty news?
Why does CNN show piles of dead bodies from Haiti?
Isn't it offensive? Or people want to know the truth?
What if children are watching?
Discuss.
The BBC is not that into this kind of stuff, its more into political skirmishes but the Daily Mail is filled with pages and pages of info about dead young people, dead teachers, murdered kids etc.
It is people's worse fear. We all fear death and we fear the death of our loved ones.
So people read up these stories, about how other people died so that they are informed about reality and be prepared when their turn is up.
Are you for or against publishing such materials?
Under communism in my country if there was a disaster, like a train wreck with many peopel mangled and gutted no news will be published so that people don't get stressed!
They will get the corpse, clean the site and that's it. Cover it up like they did when the nuclear power plant exploded.
Eventually news spread by word of mouth but this was a slow process.
Now I can go onlike, search on google and get all the deaths reported from around the world.
What is your verdict?
Why do we read all those nasty murder and accident stories? Because we fear we could be next?
Or we get horny by imagining naked dead bodies?
What is it that makes people read nasty news?
Why does CNN show piles of dead bodies from Haiti?
Isn't it offensive? Or people want to know the truth?
What if children are watching?
Discuss.