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Busman747 · 14-04-2005, 16:10

I see the point you are making Neil but I am not convinced that atrocities like this will go away if the public ignore the situation and in the meantime, I for one would like to be kept abreast of international news that may concern me or this country in the future.

Not only relevent news but for instance, since or just after the tsunami, the Government and Tamal Tigers were reported to have had a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, I have yet to see any report in the papers confirming this is still true or not.

That brings me to another niggle with the British Press, how many times have they splashed potential news in their papers like "Heads of State meeting to discuss world poverty".... but rarely seem to find the space in the papers to explain after the event what was done or said (unless a streaker happened to be there! )

The local rags are particularly good at this with headlines such as "Men arrested for armed robbery" but when the court hands down sentences, it is hardly worthy of a little corner of the paper somewhere in the middle!

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Busman747 Always EVIL within us Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Accrington Posts: 1,568 Blog Entries: 4 Liked: 40 times Rep Power: 1670	Re: Half page on Page 30 I see the point you are making Neil but I am not convinced that atrocities like this will go away if the public ignore the situation and in the meantime, I for one would like to be kept abreast of international news that may concern me or this country in the future. Not only relevent news but for instance, since or just after the tsunami, the Government and Tamal Tigers were reported to have had a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, I have yet to see any report in the papers confirming this is still true or not. That brings me to another niggle with the British Press, how many times have they splashed potential news in their papers like "Heads of State meeting to discuss world poverty".... but rarely seem to find the space in the papers to explain after the event what was done or said (unless a streaker happened to be there! ) The local rags are particularly good at this with headlines such as "Men arrested for armed robbery" but when the court hands down sentences, it is hardly worthy of a little corner of the paper somewhere in the middle! __________________ Pray that there is intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's Bu""er all down here on Earth - (Eric Idle)