Daily Poll #23

[IhateClowns]

Thanks for participating. These votes are confidential but please post your opinions if you want to.

 

[greeneyedvirgin]

I voted other. They've all been big news stories and I care not to go into them and don't get me started on the *insert proper slur here* in Washington....

 

[suckonsimon]

I ticked the ISIS horror.

3,500 Yazidi and Christian women are presumed sold into sex slavery to 'jihadists' who have travelled to Syria and Iraq from among other nations UK, US, Australia, France ... young men who went to our schools descended into such depraved cruelty ... - It's the exposure to the world of something truly terrible which needs our attention with much more than air-power.

At the church I belong with they put an atlas open at the Middle East at the steps at the front and I notice Sunday by Sunday, kind people putting their hand on that page as they go up for their Holy Communion; it's a tiny thing which I hope is somehow making a difference to some of those beautiful women and girls whose lives have been so horrendously trashed. Oh Lord, how long?!

 

[lovetopleasewomen]

You forgot..."IHC's return to Lit."

 

[suckonsimon]

Bump for more votes and comments

 

[Aquagal]

I'm speculating that top news stories are subjective to what part of the country, or world, you live in.

 

[Leigh81]

Robin Williams is the only one on that list that effected me.

L

 

[GiggLeGasm]

I voted other. I don't know that I would select any one news story and agree that it may depend on where you live. Personally, I am most directly impacted by new healthcare legislation - but that's more of a responsive process than a news item.

I would say that, in my opinion, the biggest news of 2014 has been a shift in how news is recognized. It used to be that news station executives would choose what was important for me to see and which details about it I would know. Now, any passerby on the street can declare that something is newsworthy simply by initiating a twitter feed. It has shifted control of news. It has contributed to chaos. I'm not saying that with negative prejudice. Chaos is necessary for change.. and some things may need to change. anyway.. my vote is that the delivery of the news itself has undergone significant transformation.

 

[IhateClowns]

I'm speculating that top news stories are subjective to what part of the country, or world, you live in.

That's why I put other. Clearly there are stories.both good and bad locally that will affect you more than say the Ukranian crisis. If you did select other tell me the news.story. I am on Daily Mail constantly. I love reading different news stories.

 

[suckonsimon]

That's why I put other. Clearly there are stories.both good and bad locally that will affect you more than say the Ukranian crisis. If you did select other tell me the news.story. I am on Daily Mail constantly. I love reading different news stories.

like for instance I guess:

the referendum in Scotland for or against independence from the United Kingdom was a massive, stay-up-all-night issue for us all in this little group of northerly islands but hardly nail-biting for folks across the Pond or even in the rest of Europe.

 

[lovetopleasewomen]

What about all the hullabaloo caused over that movie "The Interview"?

 

[PeteHulbert37]

I think it would be hard to put a finger on the one single biggest news story for 2014. There were a lot of things that broke that were "big".

 

[EroticRomanticMan]

I think Ebola

 

[CLL_Love]

I don't watch the news nearly as much as my husband, but it seemed like every time it was on especially over the summer (when we are around the house more it seems), the Ebola outbreak was on the news. So I put that. I'll be curious to see what my husband would say. I'll ask him when he gets home.

 

[mouthybrunette]

I'm speculating that top news stories are subjective to what part of the country, or world, you live in.

I agree. I voted the Ebola outbreak, but if I wasn't in Texas I'd have likely voted for something else.

 

[IhateClowns]

Robin Williams is the only one on that list that effected me.

L

He was my comedic hero.

 

[lovetopleasewomen]

Robin Williams is the only one on that list that effected me.

L

That was a shocker. Joan Rivers not so much.

I voted other. I don't know that I would select any one news story and agree that it may depend on where you live. Personally, I am most directly impacted by new healthcare legislation - but that's more of a responsive process than a news item.

I would say that, in my opinion, the biggest news of 2014 has been a shift in how news is recognized. It used to be that news station executives would choose what was important for me to see and which details about it I would know. Now, any passerby on the street can declare that something is newsworthy simply by initiating a twitter feed. It has shifted control of news. It has contributed to chaos. I'm not saying that with negative prejudice. Chaos is necessary for change.. and some things may need to change. anyway.. my vote is that the delivery of the news itself has undergone significant transformation.

I would agree with you. It looks like this social media is not so easily manipulated. Altho after that real time uprising in Iran a few years back, a law was passed real fast in America allowing the president-alleged to shutdown the internet for up to something like 6 months should a similar event happen here.

 

[Jaime_H]

From a Brit point of view, I'd say the "Scottish no vote"

 

[Aquagal]

The only one that affected me was the douchey Obamacare, so went with that. Yes, I heard or read about everything else, but most of the time I feel so removed from society and its news.

Or most talked about could be Ebola, because everyone that got sick around me for two months said they had the Ebola. It wasn't really relevant in my world though.

 

[janeyl]

That's why I put other. Clearly there are stories.both good and bad locally that will affect you more than say the Ukranian crisis. If you did select other tell me the news.story. I am on Daily Mail constantly. I love reading different news stories.

Seriously, take it from me...don't read the Daily Mail...particularly this year in the lead up to a general election...it's a mouthpiece for the lowest common denominator middle englander scaremongering jingoistic right wing here in the UK...

 

[lovetopleasewomen]

The only one that affected me was the douchey Obamacare, so went with that. Yes, I heard or read about everything else, but most of the time I feel so removed from society and its news.

Or most talked about could be Ebola, because everyone that got sick around me for two months said they had the Ebola. It wasn't really relevant in my world though.

There is somewhere in this "obummercare" where muslims are excluded because they consider insurance to be gambling & their religion prohibits gambling.

 

[suckonsimon]

That's why I put other. Clearly there are stories.both good and bad locally that will affect you more than say the Ukranian crisis. If you did select other tell me the news.story. I am on Daily Mail constantly. I love reading different news stories.

Seriously, take it from me...don't read the Daily Mail...particularly this year in the lead up to a general election...it's a mouthpiece for the lowest common denominator middle englander scaremongering jingoistic right wing here in the UK...

Janeyl, that was my first thought too and then realised the IHC has got to be talking about a "Daily Mail" we don't know about in the UK!

But ... perfect summation of that wretched paper that I hold responsible for most of the narrow-minded defensive prejudiced cynical finger-pointing attitude which has grown up among us Brits so alarmingly!

 

[lovetopleasewomen]

Seriously, take it from me...don't read the Daily Mail...particularly this year in the lead up to a general election...it's a mouthpiece for the lowest common denominator middle englander scaremongering jingoistic right wing here in the UK...

Janeyl, that was my first thought too and then realised the IHC has got to be talking about a "Daily Mail" we don't know about in the UK!

But ... perfect summation of that wretched paper that I hold responsible for most of the narrow-minded defensive prejudiced cynical finger-pointing attitude which has grown up among us Brits so alarmingly!

The purpose of such political rags as well as news programs like this, same as in america, is to foment discord & division amoung the citizenry. A divided society is easily legislated against & enslaved.

 

[IhateClowns]

Hmmmm no.political or topical polls. I was going to have an abortion/gun.control/immigration poll next but I will Just stick to the wanna fuck polls instead lol

 

[lovetopleasewomen]

Hmmmm no.political or topical polls. I was going to have an abortion/gun.control/immigration poll next but I will Just stick to the wanna fuck polls instead lol

I vote that!