[jamest]

Here we are, in a disastrous economy with financial institutions receiving and dissipating hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds with no accountability; yet another military conflict in the Middle East; and investment in energy development collapsing.

So what are the idiots in the media obsessing on today? The emergency landing in the Hudson River!!!

Okay, we get it! Birds in the engines, no power emergency landing, everybody out safely. Hurray!!!

So how about the media pulling their heads out of their collective butts and reporting on the stories that they should have been covering before they became crises, and that will be influencing how we will be living for the next several years?

P.S. - Does anybody believe that this obsession would be occurring if the emergency landing had taken place anywhere other than New York?

Moved to Open.-FL

[TWilliam]

Yep, 'good' news just isn't all that interesting, is it? A week straight of watching the space shuttle blow up was much more entertaining...

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'V')enting - The U.S. is a Nation of Idiots!!!

[mos6507]

I don't know what you're talking about. There is plenty of coverage of the financial crisis. Hell, people are living it. They don't need to be told by the media to know we're in trouble.

[Aaron]

About to board a US Air flight today actually.

[canis_lupus]

Timeout -

You have to admit, that landing was cool, a miracle, and in an oblique way, something metaphorical that we're all hoping for...the strong, white-haired man saving all of us with a well-executed splashdown in the heart of the financial district.

But I don't disagree with you at all, we're hosed. While I'd like to point out that not ALL of us are brainless idiots (at least not ME ), America in general is totally screwed.

My business partner and I are in an interesting place: we are both Peakers. We've just launched a new service for our customers that may be quite lucrative...but we're making business decisions based on the coming collapse. Make the money and run, so to speak. Feels weird!

[Heineken]

The media embrace airline crash stories because flying is how media people get around. They fly constantly.

Also, in the case of yesterday's accident, it was a good-news opportunity---with a hero no less. For once, somebody actually did something right!

Gotta give the masses their "stories" and their hope.

[hermit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jamest', 'S')o how about the media pulling their heads out of their collective butts and reporting on the stories that they should have been covering before they became crises, and that will be influencing how we will be living for the next several years?

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he media embrace airline crash stories because flying is how media people get around.

[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'A')bout to board a US Air flight today actually.

[bratticus]

Boo-hoo-hoo! Somebodies someplace else were bad and stupid and now I will have to pay for it despite the fact that everything I do is good and smart.

[bratticus]

*pop*

[bratticus]

[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/TCrPOd_sSAw[/flash]

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jamest', 'P').S. - Does anybody believe that this obsession would be occurring if the emergency landing had taken place anywhere other than New York?

[TheDude]

Plane crashes are exotic, it's a departure from mundane forms of death. About 115 people die each day in car crashes in the US alone, but who cares?

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', 'P')lane crashes are exotic, it's a departure from mundane forms of death. About 115 people die each day in car crashes in the US alone, but who cares?

[gnm]

I wager most of the "idiots" on the street you asked couldn't tell you where those countries were Bratticus, and wouldn't care even if they knew...

-G

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 't')hose countries

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 't')hose countries

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 'O')akland? As in CA? What the heck are they rioting about - the train shooting still?