http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/16/king.tut.malaria/index.html?iref=allsearch
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
King Tut BROKE HIS LEG!
Apparently CNN finds King Tut's death important enough to be covered, which was several years ago.... Also this raises the question of why money is being put into such a thing when it could be, for starters, feeding kids in Africa! Does anyone find this research helpful to them personally, and why does the news need to be making such a big deal out of it?
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This is just another problem with the 24 hour news we have today. Not just CNN, but all the major news corporations fill their broadcasts with useless information. I will say that during the elections and major, MAJOR events are times when 24 hour news is appropriate. To be fair, I'm sure that the relatives of King Tut care to know about this, and some history buffs as well. But I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of people would rather hear about more pressing issues and not what happened to a mummy centuries B.C. That is what history class is for.
I feel like the news just tries to find fillers if they have empty airtime. It's not about the passion to report anymore, but just the passion to make money. Maybe this was important decades ago, but now? No way.
Its a fact that the major news corporations decide what information or stories are "important" and "unimportant". If they want to fill time on their 24 hour news networks then they will blow relatively unimportant news out of perspective and leave you with another "boy trapped in a ballon" story. At the same time, its good to understand the past and learn from it because it could benefit our future in the long run. But still, I feel like people might have gone overboard on talking about King Tut.
I agree with you on this one. The information is interesting but not something I would call important. I can also see where you're coming from with the waste of money thing, but hey, the world is filled with unjust budgeting - the man who hits a ball with a stick makes millions of dollars a year while the man trying to cure cancer makes far less...
I'm not sure who fronted the money for this project, but it's ultimately their decision. Waste of money? Maybe, but it's still their money. If the government was spending my tax money on something like this without a good reason, that's a problem. As for the news covering it, it may be unimportant, but to some, it's entertaining. Was the Super Bowl "important?" Of course not, but entertaining nonetheless. The money CBS used to cover the Super Bowl could have been used to feed starving children in Africa.
Believe me, I hear your point. But if you don't like it, change the channel.
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