Donnie Darko

[ellenscult]

From the City Screen showings email:

Coming Soon

Next week sees the highly anticipated directors-cut of the cult American indie classic DONNIE DARKO which shows in an exclusive digital presentation.

Anyone fancy going? Depending on when it *actuall* is, that is...

Went climbing with john_hat at The Edge yesterday. He'll doubtless write a far better post about it, so it will suffice to say merely that I made it up the tower (which is tall and has an overhang) on a 5 , and I lead a couple of 4 routes. And did other stuff. So *happy dance* it was a good evening, rounded off with a pint of Centurion's Ghost and a curry from the Chenab.

Got to bed at 12:30, though, and up at 6:45, then a dash to put the rubbish and recycling out (when my brain woke up enough to remember it's bin day), and a trek to the station. Isn't it a beautiful day! I want to cut my lawn...

In the Metro there was a paragraph on someone in Germany condemning the new Haribo wrappers, as 'the lemon and the lime are having sex. The lemon is clearly enjoying it.' Points to anyone who can find a picture of this. *big grin*

Finally... isn't it interesting that on the BBC breakfast news they announced a double suicide bombing in Israel, killing quite a lot of people, then immediately announced another elsewhere (I think Russia, but it was before I woke up properly). Kofi Annan condemned that suicide bombing. Where's the condemnation of the Israeli bombing? How is that 'acceptable'? And why isn't there an outcry about this kind of bias? I'm not a happy bunny about that.

Edit: A friend sent me some more info about the dodgy sweet wrappers...

Comments

Donnie Darko

[gaxx.livejournal.com]

Ooh - I'd be interested - so long as it's on a convenient day :)

Re: Donnie Darko

[ellenscult]

I'll let you know when I get more information. ;) Chances are it's going to be when I'm busy, though...

Media, politics and bias

[gaxx.livejournal.com]

The reason that there's no reported condemnation of the Israeli bombing is probably that it's now considered rather 'normal' for such events to be taking place there so why would the media bother to report it? We don't get news reports (even local ones) to say there's been a punch-up on Micklegate on a Friday evening although we might get one if there were a punch-up elsewhere.

All this adds up to the fact that there might have been a condemnation... and then again there might not have been. It might be that the politicians have succumbed to the same level of fatigue as the media - they might have decided that the last X condemnations haven't done any good so there's not much point in issuing another one. My money would be on them having issued one and not bothered to make much issue about it.

Why no outrage - same reason that the media coverage is light. The public as a whole aren't interested. Why would they be? They _expect_ there to be suicide bombings by Palesitinians on Israelies and brutal attacks by Israelies on Palestinians. Why would they bother taking note of what they expect to happen on a day-to-day basis. I certainly wouldn't take note of a knifing happening in Birmingham unless there were something particularly unusual about the incident.

>Finally... isn't it interesting that on the BBC breakfast news they
>announced a double suicide bombing in Israel, killing quite a lot
>of people, then immediately announced another elsewhere (I think
>Russia, but it was before I woke up properly). Kofi Annan condemned
>that suicide bombing. Where's the condemnation of the Israeli >bombing? How is that 'acceptable'? And why isn't there an outcry
>about this kind of bias? I'm not a happy bunny about that.

Re: Media, politics and bias

[ellenscult]

Well, they're still reporting them. Just like they're still reporting the suicide bombings all over the Middle East. They aren't reporting the bomb alerts in Northern Ireland, though. It's just that it seems as though most of these bombings aren't condemned any more, by anyone. And while the world isn't saying, 'No, this is unacceptable', there's not much pressure on the terrorists doing the bombing (and those funding them) to stop.

And for the Secretary General of the UN to condemn select ones and not condemn every single suicide bombing is atrocious. One could almost accuse him and the UN of pandering to certain pressures, and of anti-semitism. But I'm not going to. Because others have put it a lot better than I ever could.

Re: Media, politics and bias

[gaxx.livejournal.com]

Do we have any evidence that it has not been condemned - I mean other than a small bunch of journalists failing to mention whether it has or has not been?

Re: Media, politics and bias

[ellenscult]

As far as I can tell, the UN has ignored it. But the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Qureia, has condemned it.