Dixon Carter Lee
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If you watched any TV or read the first paragraph of any newspaper recently you might have seen the story about how a recent discovery of a house under 300 feet of water in the Black Sea is giving more credence to the historical notion of Noah and the Flood. But if you read seven or eight paragraphs in you realize that no one is actually saying that but your local newscasters or second rate copy writers.
(If you care, evidence of a 7500 year old settlement was found beneath the Black Sea on a shoreline that was flooded when the Mediterranean Sea broke through a natural land levy and flooded an area the size of Florida, an incredible disaster that could have been added to all the flood stories that humankind collected over the years and used to create the story of Noah written about, oh, five thousand years later. A BIG leap, to be sure.)
It used to be just television news that blatantly screwed around with the facts to make them seem more interesting -- now it's print. It used be just local news, too, but even major network newscasts are featuring stories on the Goddamned Survivors.
On the cruise ships I worked I often got CNN International via satellite in my cabin, and it's astonishing to see the world in perspective. There's so much going on that we never hear about, either from TV or the newspapers.
And "alternative media" ain't much better with their hipper-than-thou-everything-sucks-through-cigarette-haze editorial style and questionable credibility.
Anyone know an Internet site that sifts through the news o' the world and presents a well put together, balanced and infomative site? If I have to listen to one more newcast tell me which movie made the most money this week or read one more newspaper article copied from the Associated Press I'm going to go mad. Mad I tell you.
[Edited by Dixon Carter Lee on 09-15-2000 at 12:17 PM]
(If you care, evidence of a 7500 year old settlement was found beneath the Black Sea on a shoreline that was flooded when the Mediterranean Sea broke through a natural land levy and flooded an area the size of Florida, an incredible disaster that could have been added to all the flood stories that humankind collected over the years and used to create the story of Noah written about, oh, five thousand years later. A BIG leap, to be sure.)
It used to be just television news that blatantly screwed around with the facts to make them seem more interesting -- now it's print. It used be just local news, too, but even major network newscasts are featuring stories on the Goddamned Survivors.
On the cruise ships I worked I often got CNN International via satellite in my cabin, and it's astonishing to see the world in perspective. There's so much going on that we never hear about, either from TV or the newspapers.
And "alternative media" ain't much better with their hipper-than-thou-everything-sucks-through-cigarette-haze editorial style and questionable credibility.
Anyone know an Internet site that sifts through the news o' the world and presents a well put together, balanced and infomative site? If I have to listen to one more newcast tell me which movie made the most money this week or read one more newspaper article copied from the Associated Press I'm going to go mad. Mad I tell you.
[Edited by Dixon Carter Lee on 09-15-2000 at 12:17 PM]
