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How much does the missing Malaysian airliner affect you?

How much does the missing Malaysian airliner affect your life?

  • Nothing is more important to my life than what happened to that airliner.

    Votes: 6 50.0%

  • The missing Malaysian airline should be a top American priority

    Votes: 4 33.3%

  • At least 50% of all media coverage should be about that airliner

    Votes: 6 50.0%

  • They need to find it so I can finally get some sleep

    Votes: 6 50.0%

  • If they do not find out what happened I'll lose my house and job

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • I need to know so I can decide how I will vo in elections

    Votes: 7 58.3%
  • Total voters
    12
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The media has incessantly covered the missing Malaysian airliner. This is extremely cheap for them to do - rather than having investigative reporters around the country and world for actual domestic and foreign policy matters.

Amazingly, most people are so gullible they will agree that a missing Malaysian airliner is THE most important topic and issue in the world to them going right along with it. And, then, our government decides "yes, the missing Malaysian airliner is a top US government priority!"

I haven't watched about it or read about it myself. There are constant tragedies all over the world 24/7 and a missing Malaysian airline has exactly no relevancy to my life whatsoever.

How much does the missing Malaysian airliner affect you life?
 
Not at all, and I'm shocked at the volume of airtime it is getting.
 
Sorry, once again when I clicked to add more poll questions forum software instead just loaded it.

The last poll question was to be: "I am curious but it does not affect my life."
 
I don't care at all. That's not an option on the poll.
 
joko104 said:
The media has incessantly covered the missing Malaysian airliner. This is extremely cheap for them to do - rather than having investigative reporters around the country and world for actual domestic and foreign policy matters.

Amazingly, most people are so gullible they will agree that a missing Malaysian airliner is THE most important topic and issue in the world to them going right along with it. And, then, our government decides "yes, the missing Malaysian airliner is a top US government priority!"

I haven't watched about it or read about it myself. There are constant tragedies all over the world 24/7 and a missing Malaysian airline has exactly no relevancy to my life whatsoever.

How much does the missing Malaysian airliner affect you life?
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Other than having to switch the channel the answer is no it doesn't effect me. I have no relatives or loved ones on that plane and my family travels by car or bus.
 
joko104 said:
The media has incessantly covered the missing Malaysian airliner. This is extremely cheap for them to do - rather than having investigative reporters around the country and world for actual domestic and foreign policy matters.

Amazingly, most people are so gullible they will agree that a missing Malaysian airliner is THE most important topic and issue in the world to them going right along with it. And, then, our government decides "yes, the missing Malaysian airliner is a top US government priority!"

I haven't watched about it or read about it myself. There are constant tragedies all over the world 24/7 and a missing Malaysian airline has exactly no relevancy to my life whatsoever.

How much does the missing Malaysian airliner affect you life?
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Not at all.

If I never hear another word about it that's fine with me.
 
Maybe the aliens took the airliner and the passagers for a bit of anal probing. Just saying...
 
It's sad for those people and the families, but the amount of media coverage this thing is getting is ridiculous. There are other things going on in the world, quite possibly the beginnings of a major war. So yeah, 24 hour news stations can go **** off.
 
NBC News political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd publicly criticized CNN this week for its relentless use of the "breaking news" chyron on stories related to missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

"Another day of 'breaking news' based on finding nothing or in other words, 'not breaking news,'" Todd, who also hosts MSNBC's "Daily Rundown," wrote on Twitter on Friday morning.

"I know it may look like I am casting stones while potentially living in a glass house. But the mistakes of one news org hurts ALL of us," he wrote. "Then it becomes 'the media' is abusing 'breaking news' -- no it's not 'the media' in general."
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NBC's Chuck Todd takes aim at CNN - POLITICO.com
 
None of these poll options fit my position on the matter.

I'd say they should give hourly updates that mention new developments, but that's about it.

Of course if it's TV news channels that isn't going to happen, since they need to fill up the rest of the hour.
 
I sweat bullets about it day and night. I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't go to work until that damn airplane is found!




I've even tried dowsing for it on a regional map, but the only thing I've found so far is an old soda bottle cap...





(/irony)
 
If they don't find this plane soon, I'm going to lose my mind. It's all I can think about.
 
Part of what's irritated me with the media coverage is that it's not even dynamic: They've only discussed 'theories' with pilots and other such people. They haven't really spoken with family, etc.

240+ people and not one has any family in the US and other countries?

I'm puzzled as to why.
 
I heard Andrea Tantaros from a show on FOX News, called "The Five", give a reasonable explanation for the fascination with this subject. It's a mystery, which in today's world of instant information and knowing everything is a rarity and therefore interesting. We have this intense desire to want to know about something as bizarre, as a large airliner, that suddenly disappears without a trace.

But I think, they don't know when to stop milking something for ratings because of poor judgement from clouded emotions (greed).
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Part of what's irritated me with the media coverage is that it's not even dynamic: They've only discussed 'theories' with pilots and other such people. They haven't really spoken with family, etc.

240+ people and not one has any family in the US and other countries?

I'm puzzled as to why.
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Good point. It's not really about the people to them, is it? Just about the airplane.
 
lizzie said:
Not at all, and I'm shocked at the volume of airtime it is getting.
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Agree with the first part, but not the second.

I find it fascinating and I am not surprised at all about the coverage it is getting.

But it does not affect my life except in the slightest degree...I just spend a minute or two reading about it each day (at most) and then move on (though, when it first went missing, I spend more 'energy' on it).

Now, if they ever find it...then I will spend more time reading about it.
 
We go now to a pilot for his opinion on the events...


Sir, what do you think happened?
The aliens got it!
You're a pilot, right?
Damn skippy! I been flyin' crop dusters since the po-lice done took my driver's license away. I'll spray anything ya got!
Good enough, go on...
 
Everyone loves a good mystery, and this one is a doozy.
Amelia's missing plane still gets attention 77 years after the fact, and that was only two people.
If you have ever flown anywhere... deep down you kinda wanna know.
 
Buck Ewer said:
Everyone loves a good mystery, and this one is a doozy.
Amelia's missing plane still gets attention 77 years after the fact, and that was only two people.
If you have ever flown anywhere... deep down you kinda wanna know.
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There is, however, a line between "want to know" and "tell me constantly everything about this event that you can possibly scrape together, including stuff you don't know and the theories of random passersby"
 
Honestly, if I see that blonde, surfer-dude looking guy on The Today Show even one more time, my coffee cup might go through my TV. It's like this guy is the only guy, ever, in the history of air disasters who can give his opinion.
 
Actually, it occupies my every waking moment...I am in danger of financial ruin from lost wages due to my fixation on this news story.

I just prey that they find that Putin boy so they can return him to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Crimea...though why they think he is in Malaysia is beyond me.
 
You could surgically extract the part of my brain that's responsible for giving a **** and I still wouldn't care any less than I do now. Crap like this is the reason why I don't watch the news.
 
The Mark said:
There is, however, a line between "want to know" and "tell me constantly everything about this event that you can possibly scrape together, including stuff you don't know and the theories of random passersby"
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We are all news junkies here so we notice. The news outlets are faced with a dilemma ... there is a huge demand for information about this flight and a tiny supply of real news. What we are experiencing is the unfortunate results of that imbalance where some "news" outlets are making **** up and then giving excuses for their lack of credibility by saying,,,"well we can't rule out that possibility".
It's a problem they face driven by viewer demand and "solved" by unscrupulous journalists looking for ratings.
 
Superfly said:
Honestly, if I see that blonde, surfer-dude looking guy on The Today Show even one more time, my coffee cup might go through my TV. It's like this guy is the only guy, ever, in the history of air disasters who can give his opinion.
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You're not talking about the one with the British accent are you? He's good eye candy:mrgreen:

Oh yea, a chick posted about being tired of all the news coverage a week ago, and everybody lit into her:?
 
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