BBC News ... What The F ??

[joggerjayne]

A second explosion has killed all those poor miners in New Zealand.

I can't remember the last time a News story left me sitting in my car, crying.

And what's the headline on the BBC News?

... Giving publicity to a bunch of whingeing students.

Those whiney students need to get a grip.

[naomi24]

I'll second that!

[bibblebub]

So you've forgotten about the 450 dead in the Cambodian stampede already.

[joggerjayne]

No, I haven't forgotten. Duuuhh !

But I didn't cry.

I don't spontaneously burst into tears at every sad piece of News.

[jno]

this happened about 5am; it's old news. As bibblebub says, news fades.

[bibblebub]

But why one and not the other, when more than 10 times as many people died there?

[bednobs]

how come all the students who are moaning about the charges that get interviewed all sound posh?

[naomi24]

bednobs, maybe they're the only ones capable of stringing a few words together.

[bednobs]

suppose so but it's the poshest (richest?) sounding ones that go on about a class divide and how poor people wont be able to go

[anneasquith]

in all fairness to jj. some bits of bad news can affect us differently to others.........imo the cambodian disaster got very little publicity, the mining disaster is awful................but i would not be too hard on the students at least they are standing up to the government re the cuts imposed on us all.

[joggerjayne]

(wishes she'd never mentioned the crying bit)

Bibble ...

People die in tragic circumstances every day.

The Cambodian crush had not been foerseen.

The miners, on the other hand, had been trapped all that time, praying for rescue, fearing for death ... their families on the surface, hoping against hope for a happy outcome, and then BANG ... hope snuffed out.

Are you doing some sort of thesis on human emotional response triggers?

Or do you equate not crying with not caring?

The latter would be a very interesting proposition.

[Count-A-Strong]

I think the Beeb has a policy of prioritising major domestic news above international events unless they are on the scale of a tsunami.

[naomi24]

It's a big mistake to associate a speaking voice with weath (or otherwise) - in my opinion. Accents are far more like to result from geography.

[naomi24]

*wealth

[bednobs]

jayne, please don't think of it like that. I really don't think they were alive all that time waiting rescue, and were probably all killed initially.

[joggerjayne]

The poor students are probably too busy studying, or doing part time jobs to make ends meet.

[naomi24]

*likely.

God! Time for bed I think. Haa!

[dotty.]

There's no evidence at all yet that any of them survived the initial explosion is there JJ? It's no less tragic, but there has been no contact since it first happened to tell if they were alive, and praying for rescue.

[naomi24]

I don't believe there is dot.

[jno]

it's thought that those not killed in the first explosion would have died quickly (and painlessly) from carbon monoxide poisoning. Two people survived. This was a coal mine, not a copper mine as in Chile; poisonous gases are a common risk.