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A guy shoots five people in the mall but all you want to hear about is Anna Nichole

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by pgabriel, Feb 16, 2007.

  1. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Seriously, is this what we've come to in this country? I didn't see a thread on this but what really disturbed me was as my father pointed out, this story only made the fifth page in the Houston Chronicle when it happened.


    http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/02/14/utah.mall.gunman.reut/index.html?eref=edition_europe


    CERSKA, Bosnia (Reuters) -- The 18-year-old gunman who shot five people to death in a Salt Lake City, Utah, shopping mall was a survivor of the siege that ended in the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Bosnia's 1992-95 war, a cousin said on Wednesday.

    Sulejman Talovic, who was killed by police after Monday's shooting spree in which he also wounded four people, fled his village with his family during the Bosnia war to Srebrenica, a U.N.-protected enclave, Redzo Talovic said.

    They spent two years in the town, during which Bosnian Serb forces besieged the enclave and Talovic's grandfather was killed by shellfire, Redzo Talovic said.

    When the Bosnian Serbs overran the town in 1995, taking away and massacring some 8,000 Muslim men and boys, Talovic and his mother were evacuated by the United Nations and later reunited with his father, Redzo Talovic said.

    "They were a good, quiet family, and I remember that he was a nice kid when he was 4 or 5, maybe a little bit playful," he said, standing in front of the burned-out shell of the Talovic family home in the village of Talovici, eastern Bosnia.

    "No one could have supposed that he was going to do such a thing," Redzo Talovic said. "Who knows what made him do that?" He could not say what marks Talovic's childhood memories of wartime Bosnia had left on him.

    Redzo Talovic said he was shocked at the news.

    "I couldn't believe it. I heard that his parents are dumbfounded, they can't believe he did that," said Redzo Talovic, one of the few villagers to have returned to Talovici.

    Talovic and his family never visited Bosnia or kept in touch after moving to the United States as refugees in 2000, his cousin said.

    Police said Sulejman Talovic and his mother had lived in Salt Lake City for a few years, during which he had four minor incidents with police as a juvenile.

    The teenager, dressed in a trench coat and carrying a shotgun, a .38 caliber pistol and what police said was a "backpack full of ammunition," opened fire at random on Monday evening, sending terrified shoppers running for cover.

    Salt Lake City police chief Chris Burbank said the gunman seemed determined to "shoot as many people as he possibly could."

    An off-duty police officer opened fire and stopped the youth from moving further through the mall before he was killed by police who arrived in force. (Full story)

    Two men, two women and a 15-year-old girl died and four people were wounded
     
  2. thumbs

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    Cows are very important to this country. Horses like Barbaro are a distant second, but there is hope since lost whippets in New York ae moving up. PETA rules.
     
  3. Pole

    Pole Houston Rockets--Tilman Fertitta's latest mess.

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    teenagers in trenchcoats going on shooting rampages is like.....so.....yesterday. Come up with something original (you kind of like.....have to imagine my valley girl voice when I say that).
     
  4. Sishir Chang

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    Agreed. The priorities of this country are really screwed up. This past week there was also a shooting in Philadelphia where an investor in a company went to a company meeting and killed three employees yet you barely hear anything about that.
     
  5. Rocket River

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    At this point Anna Nicole's baby may as well be RoseMary's Baby
    cause it is bring out all the Devils

    "When you trust your television
    What you get is what you got
    ‘Cuz’ when they own the information ooohhh,
    They can bend it all they want " - John Mayer

    Rocket River
     
  6. ymc

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    I don't see anything wrong here.

    We are a capitalistic society. Therefore people will tend to pay for media outlets that give them "happiness". To provide such "happiness", the media outlets have to make news entertaining.

    Or do you prefer to red Mao's little red book every day? ;)
     
  7. thadeus

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    Those aren't the only two options. ;)

    And people getting shot up in malls isn't much bigger news than the dead, famous, fat chick. At most, it should get about 5 minutes of news - it's dramatic, but after the fact it's of little practical importance to the majority of us.

    Ideally, the news would be focused on things like: Gov. Rick Perry accepting a bribe from Merck pharmaceuticals to make one of their products MANDATORY in the state of Texas.

    The media during the 1920s (muckraking journalism) functioned, for better or worse, as a sort of oversight committee. We need that today.
     
  8. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    I agree. the news should be focused on what has the affect on most americans.
     
  9. ymc

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    But then the media outlets are profit making businesses. They will just put out things we want to pay to read/watch (or they think we would like to read/watch). It is not possible to be a mainstream media outlet and not to fall to the lowest common demoninator.

    If you want to read something more serious, you can always subscribe to political journals, e.g. Foreign Affairs. Not sure if there is anything in between Foreign Affairs and Time magazine. If there are none, that means it is not economically possible to have such a publication.

    That's how our system works. If you don't like it, you can put your $$$ to create such a publication.
     
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    i think it is interesting how the media reports this piece of news... they could have gone one way with the Islamic background of the shooter, but instead they took the Columbine approach by mentioning he was wearing a trenchcoat..

    what does what a killer wear these days matter to a story?
     
  11. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    I'm not worried about myself.
     
  12. Sishir Chang

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    I agree its not the media outlets fault but the consumers.
     
  13. RocketMan Tex

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    I was just in a restaurant for lunch that had a TV with "Headline News" on and the sound down, and every 5 minutes there was a picture of Anna Nicole Smith.

    Word to the world: The beeyotch is deader than Julius Caesar. Let it go!!! :mad:
     
  14. ima_drummer2k

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    While waiting for the Rockets game to start last night, I was switching around the dial. It was about 7pm, while the pregame crap was still on.

    On the Paula Zahn show, they were talking about it. On the Bill O'Reilly show, they were talking about it. It was exactly 7, which means that both shows opened up with this "story" ahead of everything else going on in the world.

    Pathetic.

    And, you know....it's the same thing with the Tim Hardaway "story".

    Ultimately, does it really matter what a basketball player thinks of gay people or where a fat drug addict is going to be buried? With everything else going on in the world???
     
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  15. mc mark

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    Yeah, but it keeps Jr out of the news. So you know he's lovin' it!

    :cool:
     
  16. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    I think many Americans are like my mom. She was glued to the TV for the OJ trial, the Peterson trial, the girl in Aruba story, etc. She even watched some of the Anna Nicole Smith stuff. When the State of the Union, or a story about the war, or news about presidential candidates comes on, she couldn't be less interested. I think that is the typical consumer of mass media in America, which is why the Scott Peterson story dominated the cable news airwaves for a year, despite it being about the death of only 2 people (3 if you count Scott's eventual execution).
     
  17. professorjay

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    Evidently in her will it's ambiguous because it was done before the birth of her daughter. It basically said not to give said inheritance to future children or spouses...oh...five people in the mall...all you want to hear...wrong thread, sorry guys, I didn't realize there were other issues in the world.
     
  18. Rocket River

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    News *should* give the people what they NEED more than what they WANT.
    then again . . so should Government

    Amazing that she gets more pub than Mother Theresa did
    and Mother Theresa was a Saint

    Rocket River
     
  19. thumbs

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    But exactly who is to say what the people "NEED?"
     
  20. Rocket River

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    *That's* the problem

    Defining NEED

    Rocket River
     

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