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Post by Toph on Apr 18, 2013 21:41:31 GMT
In east texas, there's a small town called West. It's south of Dallas, and about 20 miles east of Waco (Yes, David Koresh's Waco).
Yesterday a fertilizer plant caught fire. At about 7:50 PM central standard time, it blew up.
So far, around 15 people are dead, nearly 200 injured. Every home within five blocks has annhiolated. Two schools and a nursing home were decimated.
West is 70 miles away from me. I felt the explosion. It registered 2.1 on the rictor scale.
Holy shit.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 18, 2013 22:07:17 GMT
Top news story on the BBC here most of the day
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Post by Toph on Apr 18, 2013 22:41:14 GMT
Over here, national focus is all Boston. I'd say about 95% of what I've seen nationally has been nothing but boston. All morning has been live coverage of a church service. All afternoon it's wall to wall FBI press conference, and listening to pundants talk for two hours about how important these new pictures of the bombing suspects are. (FYI to news broadcasters... WE KNOW THEY'RE IMPORTANT! If they weren't, the FBI wouldn't have anything to do with them!)
Is this how non americans feel? Like Eddie Izzard once said, "You DO realize the rest of us are out here, don't you?"
This is not to disrespect the trajedy that Boston has suffered from these evil, evil events. This is also not to say that the new photos just releast of the suspects isn't news worthy. This is my frustraition at the american media complex, of wall to wall coverage of nothing, for days on end. And a lot of it is just talking heads talking about how there's no news to report yet. Lot of people talking, with nothing important being said.
There *is* other things happening in the world that they could dedicate... I don't know... five minutes out of an hour long news & opinions program for.
Cut that pundant or political annalyst short and say something else about something else.
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