Saturday, May 21, 2011
Countdown
Well, it's about to turn 6 PM in this time zone, and as yet noth
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More seriously, the media coverage of the Camping apocalypse has been surprisingly even-handed. This is one case where the media professionals are doing their job fairly well, while the commenters are acting like idiot partisans. The major networks and newspapers have tried to treat Camping's followers with respect while pointing out the absolute zero batting average of all previous prophecies.
Much different from Y2K, where the media roared into action stirring up all sorts of fantastic rumors. No mystery, of course. Y2K was designed to manipulate stock prices. Whenever Goldman needs to raise the value of stock A or drop the value of stock B in order to steal a couple quadrillion from Americans, "our" media are always ready to assist with the shorts and longs. Camping wasn't trying to manipulate a stock, so "our" media were able to treat him neutrally. ¶ 6:00 PM
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More seriously, the media coverage of the Camping apocalypse has been surprisingly even-handed. This is one case where the media professionals are doing their job fairly well, while the commenters are acting like idiot partisans. The major networks and newspapers have tried to treat Camping's followers with respect while pointing out the absolute zero batting average of all previous prophecies.
Much different from Y2K, where the media roared into action stirring up all sorts of fantastic rumors. No mystery, of course. Y2K was designed to manipulate stock prices. Whenever Goldman needs to raise the value of stock A or drop the value of stock B in order to steal a couple quadrillion from Americans, "our" media are always ready to assist with the shorts and longs. Camping wasn't trying to manipulate a stock, so "our" media were able to treat him neutrally. ¶ 6:00 PM
